Cappella Anselmetti, Baroque chapel in Turin, Italy.
Cappella Anselmetti is a Baroque chapel in Turin with a rectangular layout and elaborately decorated interior. The ceiling displays frescoes showing Heaven, prophets, and biblical scenes that extend across the walls throughout the space.
In 1730 Turin sold the land where the chapel later rose on a pre-existing farm. Between 1785 and 1790 the banker Carlo Vincenzo Anselmetti built the manor and its chapel, designed by Bernardo Antonio Vittone. The farm was demolished in the mid-1970s, leaving the chapel, restored from 2002 to 2006 and inaugurated on 2 March 2007 as a history teaching workshop.
The chapel's entrance faces the road rather than the former courtyard, so travellers and local inhabitants could also use its religious service. Since 2007 it has housed a teaching workshop of History and Stories, opened after restoration and named for the schools that requested it.
The chapel stands in the Centro Europa area of Mirafiori Nord, on the road that branches right off the Orbassano road toward the Church of Gerbo. Its entrance faces the street rather than the former courtyard, so travellers and local inhabitants could use it for religious services. It was restored between 2002 and 2006 and inaugurated on 2 March 2007 as a teaching laboratory of History and Stories, also a permanent archive.
The chapel is the only surviving 18th-century building in the Mirafiori Nord district; the rest of the villa-farm was demolished in the mid-1970s. Its entrance faces the street rather than the former courtyard, so passers-by and local inhabitants could also use it for religious services.
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