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Castle of Rivoli today

Italy · Restored

Castle of Rivoli

The Castle of Rivoli is a former Savoyard royal residence in Rivoli near Turin, Italy, now housing the Castello di Rivoli – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea. The structure preserves large red-brick wings from its 16th–17th-century rebuilding (notably the Manica Lunga) and later unfinished Baroque additions; it has been restored and repurposed as a museum since 1984. The complex includes a 16th-century nymphaeum and the long gallery intended as the Savoy Gallery.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

First raised

1984

Its prime

1644

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1644

The shape it held in its prime.

A massive red-brick palace block with a long, horizontal gallery wing (the Manica Lunga) and a taller gabled eastern mass. The exterior foreground shows a sequence of large round-arched openings set into rusticated brick piers with white stone quoins and balustraded openings. Tall rectangular windows are regularly spaced on the upper floors; brick courses and pilaster framing define openings. The castle sits on a slight hillside above the town, with visible layered arcades and a deep entrance passage.

Step inside

5 places to explore in 1644.

The record describes 5 distinct spots at Castle of Rivoli — including 2 interiors: savoy gallery (manica lunga) interior, nymphaeum (16th-century garden cave). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Approach under the southern archesArcaded inner courtyardManica Lunga exterior elevationSavoy Gallery (Manica Lunga) interiorNymphaeum (16th-century garden cave)

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