Carlo Emanuele II's hunting lodge outside Turin grew, court by court, into one of Europe's grandest residences, closer in scale to Versailles than to a stable block. Filippo Juvarra's Great Gallery, a corridor of light on the north wing, and the replanted formal gardens anchor a restoration that reopened the long-abandoned Reggia in 2007 after decades as an army barracks.
The Church of Sant'Uberto, its dome floating over a Greek-cross plan, and the frescoed Diana Gallery round out a complex that UNESCO lists among the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy. Exhibition galleries now fill wings the Savoys left as storerooms, and the Venaria Express shuttle makes the palace an easy half-day trip from central Turin.
