Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Baroque palace in Turin, Italy

Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana occupies a whole block between via Garibaldi, via della Consolata, via Bligny and via del Carmine. Its entrance atrium has Doric and Corinthian columns; inside, a large courtyard is served by two staircases, one with two loggias on the piano nobile. Servants' quarters and stables filled the western wing, the state apartments the eastern one.

Built between 1715 and 1722 to a design by Giovanni Giacomo Gerolamo Plantery for senator Baldassarre Saluzzo di Paesana, who was decorated with the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation. The palace faces the old Piazza Susina, today via della Consolata, at the centre of the expansion commissioned by Vittorio Amedeo II from Filippo Juvarra from 1715. In the 1730s Bartolomeo and Domenico Guidobono and stuccatore Pietro Somasso decorated the state apartment. Sold in 1949 to the Del Carretto family of Val Bormida.

The palace's name comes from Baldassarre Saluzzo di Paesana, count of Paesana, Oncino, Ostana and Castellar, who commissioned it. In the 1730s the Savonese painters Bartolomeo and Domenico Guidobono decorated the state apartment, working with the Luganese stuccoist Pietro Somasso. The monumental loggia and inner courtyard later served as filming locations for Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, Daniele Luchetti's Confidenza and the TV series La legge di Lidia Poët.

The palace occupies a full block bounded by via Garibaldi, via della Consolata, via Bligny and via del Carmine, a short walk from the Consolata sanctuary. Enter through the atrium with Doric and Corinthian columns; the monumental loggia and inner courtyard are the parts most often seen by visitors. The building is under the supervision of the Soprintendenza alle Belle Arti.

In 1902 the palace drew public attention when authorities uncovered a criminal case involving missing persons within its basement areas. This dark chapter became an unexpected part of the building's modern history.