Stupinigi Hunting Lodge The long avenue lined with farms, and the semicircle formed by the stables, prepare the eye for the Palace’s appearance; its use as a hunting lodge is symbolised by the statue of the stag on the roof. With its unique plan in the shape of four arms, arranged like a warning cross and radiating from a luxurious elliptical-shaped central ballroom, this famous residence, designed by Filippo Juvarra in 1729 for Vittorio Amedeo II, juts out into the surrounding park. The Art and Furniture Museum, set up inside its superbly frescoed rooms, contains veritable treasures of Piedmontese cabinet-making that originally belonged to the Palace, or that came from similar residences such as Moncalieri and Venaria Reale.

Rivoli Castle
This imposing Castle is strategically situated on a moraine hill to the entrance of the Susa Valley. It was a fortress-dwelling in the 11th century, which passed under the House of Savoy in the 14th century. It was redesigned by the architects Ascanio Vitozzi, Carlo and Amedeo di Castellamonte, Michelangelo Garove, and by the great Juvarra between the years 1715 to 1727. Juvarra prepared an ambitious project for its expansion which was never completed; traces of this project can be have housed the Museum of Contemporary Art, an international workshop for artistic experimentation, which proposes a programme of temporary exhibitions, alongside permanent collections (by such masters as Long, Merz, Paolini, Pistoletto, Sol Lewitt and Vedova, including the most recent artistic trendsetters such as Airò, Cattelan, Toderi).