Reggia di Veneria Reale
Reggia basically means royal residence and Veneria Reale is the name of the location. This royal complex (built in the mid 1600’s) was expansive and currently under restoration. During it’s time, this was the largest and grandest palace in Europe. Today there was scaffolding, paint buckets, bags of plaster and other construction material strewn about. Many of the windows have not been replaced and so birds have flown in and made themselves comfortable. Statues were missing, frescos were ruined and the whole place looked like it was vandalized, in fact it had. After the French Revolution, Napoleon pillaged some of the statues and moved them. The restoration project has been going on for 7 years; they hope to be finished in 2006. From the looks of things today, they still have a long way to go
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There is a web site devoted to the restoration works.
Also, nowaday Veneria is often spelled Venaria [your spelling was not a mistake]
http://www.lavenaria.it/eng/index.htm.
May I suggest a site for your wandering? look for the Forte di Fenestrelle. From Pinerolo to Sestriere. An impressive fortification on the mountains. [a lot, really a l o t, of steps though]
PC,
Who are you? You don't have a site I see. Anyways thank you for the info. I will look on Virgilio.it, I always appreciate advice. Are you in Torino?
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