Palazzo Madama - Great Attractions (Turin, Italy)

  • 13 years ago
Take a tour of Palazzo Madama in Turin, Italy – part of the World’s Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats.

The Palazzo Madama is a palace in Turin, Italy with an interesting history, spanning millenniums.

Two of the towers, the oldest components of the palace, predate Christianity.

In the fourteenth century, a square castle was constructed in the location.

The four turrets of the castle protrude out the sides of the existing structure.

The newest part, the front of the palace, was reconstructed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The Palazzo Madama is currently the location of the Museum of Ancient Art.