Sarre Royal Castle, Royal castle in Sarre, Aosta Valley, Italy.
The castle sits on a hilltop with a square central tower and a long building shape overlooking the Aosta Valley and the Mont Blanc road below. Inside, three floors contain collections of furnishings, hunting equipment, and historical objects from the 1800s and early 1900s.
A fortress originally stood here starting in 1242, but the current building was built in 1708. King Victor Emanuel II later made it into a hunting lodge and shaped the spaces with his interests.
The name Sarre comes from the title Count of Sarre, granted to Jacques di Bard in 1242 after the meeting at the fortress between Amadeus IV and Gotofredo di Challant. The first floor recreates the Royal Apartment as it was under Umberto I, using original furniture and fabrics reproduced from 1890 inventories kept in the Turin historical archive. The most singular room is the Trophy Gallery, whose walls are covered with hundreds of ibex horns combined with painted floral decorations.
The castle stands on terraced ground above the RN26 and the A5 Mont Blanc motorway at Lalex, in the municipality of Sarre. The ground floor, with the permanent exhibition on the House of Savoy, can be visited freely; the Royal Apartment on the first floor and the rooms of the last sovereigns on the second are shown with original furniture and textiles reproduced from the 1890 inventories.
The Galleria dei Trofei on the first floor is lined with hundreds of ibex horns set against painted floral decoration, arranged under King Umberto I. A second trophy room adjoins it. The first-floor royal apartment was refurnished using fabrics reproduced from inventories of 1890 held in the Turin historical archive.
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