The Rooms Of Palazzo Barolo

In 1906, the south side of the palazzo Barolo was demolished to widen and rectify the current Via Corte d'Appello: in the street pavement the trace of the original perimeter of the building still remains. Following the demolitions, a terrace was built in place of a pre-existing courtyard and the Green Chamber was rebuilt, which contains a fresco by Luigi Morgari representing The Wedding of Peleus and Teti.

Guest of the Falletti Marquises after the publication of "Le mie prigioni", the writer Silvio Pellico stayed for many years in the palace, whose room is part of the tour of the Palazzo museum. Pellico helped Giulia di Barolo in her works of charity, even teaching in schools founded by the Marchesa.

 

The staircase occupies the central space of the building in place of the traditional location on the side as in the typical seventeenth-century palaces. The decorative arrangements of the ground floor and some rooms on the piano nobile date back to the end of the seventeenth century; the stuccos are by Pietro Somasso, the paintings by Francesco Trevisani and the frescoes by Legnani.

Palazzo Barolo

The Barolo palace (also Palazzo Falletti di Barolo) is a patrician residence in Turin. It is home to the Barolo Opera which, according to the will of the Marchesa Giulia, has the task of continuing the activities of promoting human and social service that Giulia and her husband Tancredi had started.

The building, which stands in Via delle Orfane, was built at the end of the seventeenth century by Gian Francesco Baroncelli as a renovation of the house already owned by Count Ottavio Provana di Druento, "first squire" and "great guardarobiere" of Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy .

In the palace lived the only daughter of Count Ottavio, Elena Matilde, with her husband, Marquis Gabriele Falletti di Barolo who, with three children born in the marriage, left the palace and his wife when the father-in-law did not give his daughter the rich dowry already promised at the time of marriage.At age 26, Elena Matilde committed suicide by throwing herself out of her bedroom window.

In 1727 it was inherited by Ottavio Giuseppe, the eldest son of Elena and Gabriele Falletti di Barolo, who entrusted the modification to Benedetto Alfieri around the middle of the eighteenth century to adapt it to the rococo style. The palace was the residence of the Falletti family up to the married couple Tancredi (who died in 1838) and Giulia di Barolo (who died in 1864), with whom the family died out. They left the palace at the Opera Pia Barolo foundation.

Reflection In Pond Of Rain Water

Raining everyday, when it stopped, ponds of water were left all over the town, creating upside down mirror images of the town here and there.

At Cavallerizza Reale, a reflection of the opposite building with thye tip of La Mole on a pond of water.

Salone del Libro 2018

The mega event of Turin, the book fair ' Salone del Libro' has just ended, this year there were 144 thousands visitors and almost all accomodations available in town were fully booked.

 The Book Tower, landmark of the book fair

There are a total of 5 Padiglione ( Pavilions ) and this is padiglione 2

There are also rare and scarce books

And also Harry Potter

Despite it had been raining during the 5 days run of the event, the place was crowded everyday.

Meditation In Piazza

Turin is considered to be a magical city, with both white and black magic spread in various location of the city.
The Piedmontese capital is exactly halfway between the triangle of white magic (together with Lyon and Prague) and black magic (with London and San Francisco). Not only that: many of its buildings and monuments recall symbols of Freemasonry and religion.

For Turin, white magic and black magic offset each other. For the positive faction there are Piazza Castello, the Church of the Gran Madre, the Angelica Fountain in Piazza Solferino and the Mole Antonelliana. Piazza Castello is the epicenter of positive energy, identifiable in the Palazzo Reale.
Perhaps this expalins why this guy is meditating right in the center of piazza Castello

Tulips In Torino

In piazza Emanuele Filiberto, a small patch of land in the middle of the road was converted into small vegetable and fruit garden and this year, rows of tulips are planted around the garden.

These white tulips do beautified this rather plain piazza.

Still Raining

Still raining, a scene at via Lagrange with my favourite building on that street in view.

Via Lagrange is one of the main shopping street in Torino, with some high end fashion shops and Eataly restaurante situated here, it can be quite crowded during weekends.

CDP May Theme - Laugh

For the CDP May theme , I present this photo of my friend BarbieBuBu who is a mechanic by day and in the evenings or in his free times, he acts as a drag queen, providing lots of fun and laughers to people who come to see his show.

By the way he laughs, I am pretty sure he enjoy very much doing what he likes and is doing it very well. 

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