Palazzo Birago di Vische, Baroque palace in Turin, Italy.
Palazzo Birago di Vische is a Baroque residence in Turin featuring a grand facade supported by colossal columns and a central portal. The interior opens onto a courtyard of honor, with an entrance hall displaying a sail vault decorated with painted lunettes.
Architect Filippo Juvarra designed this palace in 1716 for a prominent military officer of the Kingdom of Sardinia. The Della Valle family acquired it in 1858 and introduced neo-Rococo additions that remain visible in the building today.
The palace's name recalls the Birago di Borgaro family, whose most prominent member, Count Augusto Renato Birago di Borgaro, commissioned it; the building is now known as Palazzo Birago di Vische. Augusto Renato turned the residence into one of Turin's leading salons, aided by his posts as honorary knight to queens Anna Maria d'Orléans and Polissena Cristina d'Assia-Rotenburg and as tutor to the heirs to the throne. The Della Valle family, owners from 1858, furnished the interiors in a neo-Rococo taste tinged with 19th-century eclecticism.
The palace is the seat of the Turin Chamber of Commerce at via Carlo Alberto 16, in the city's historic centre. It is a working office building rather than a museum, so entry is not guaranteed for individual visitors; ask the Chamber in advance about access tied to events or exhibitions.
The main staircase and the great salon overlooking the courtyard are the work of the Della Valle family, who bought the palace in 1858 and furnished the interiors in a neo-Rococo taste with a vein of 19th-century eclecticism. The Juvarra layout itself was left unchanged.
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