Royal castles and palaces in Europe - Page 2

Chadoh25 · October 19th, 2011, 06:03 PM

Awesome Thread!

normy89 · October 24th, 2011, 01:45 PM

The Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi (Italian: "The hunting residence[1] of Stupinigi") is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy in northern Italy, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. Built as a royal hunting lodge in the early 18th century, it is located in Stupinigi, a suburb of the city of TURIN.

The new palace was designed by the architect Filippo Juvarra to be used as a palazzina di caccia ("hunting lodge") for Vittorio Amedeo II, King of Sardinia. Works started in 1729. Within two years construction was far enough advanced for the first formal hunt to take place.
Juvarra called upon a team of decorators, many of them from Venice, to carry out the decor of the palazzina interiors. In the reigns of Carlo Emanuele III and Vittorio Amedeo III the palazzina and its formal park continued to be extended, at first by Juvarra's assistant, Giovanni Tommaso Prunotto, then by numerous North Italian architects, such as Ignazio Birago di Borgaro, Ludovico Bo, Ignazio Bertola and Benedetto Alfieri. The final building has a total of 137 rooms and 17 galleries, and covers 31,050 square meters [1]. Polissena of Hesse-Rotenburg, wife of Carlo Emanuele III also carried out improvements.
The original purpose of the hunting lodge is symbolized by the bronze stag perched at the apex of the stepped roof of its central dome, and the hounds' heads that decorate the vases on the roofline. The building has a saltire plan: four angled wings project from the oval-shaped main hall.
The extensions resulted in separate pavilions linked by long angled galleries and a long octagonal forecourt enclosed by wings, extended forwards in two further entrance courts.

Stupinigi was the preferred building to be used for celebrations and dynastic weddings by members of the House of Savoy. Here, in 1773, Maria Teresa, Princess of Savoy, married Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, brother of Louis XVI and the future Charles X of France.

normy89 · October 25th, 2011, 08:05 PM

TORINO - Italy's first Capital City -

The Castle of Valentino (Italian Castello del Valentino) is an historic building in the north-west Italian city of Turin. It is located in Valentino Park, and is the seat of the Architecture Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Turin. It is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1997.

The current structure is due to Princess Christine Marie of France (1606–1663), wife of Victor Amadeus I, who dwelt here from 1630. It has a horseshoe shape, with four round towers at each angle, and a wide inner court with a marble pavement. The ceilings of the false upper floors are clearly in transalpino (i.e. French) style. The façade sports a huge coat of arms of the House of Savoy. Works lasted until 1660.
Minor modifications were made in the early nineteenth century; at this time, too, much of the seventeenth-century furniture was carried off by French troops. For the next half century the palace was more or less abandoned and fell into a state of disrepair. Renovations were carried out in 1860 when it was selected as the seat of the engineering faculty of Turin; it has been further restored in recent years.
Today it is the central building of the Architecture faculty of the Polytechnic University of Turin.
The Orto Botanico dell'Università di Torino, a historic botanical garden in the castle grounds.

http://tinypic.com/

Chadoh25 · October 27th, 2011, 09:15 PM

Beautiful!

normy89 · October 31st, 2011, 02:36 PM

TORINO - Italy's first Capital City -

Reggia di Venaria Reale

The Palace of Venaria (Italian: Reggia di Venaria Reale) is a former royal residence located in Venaria Reale, near Turin, in Piedmont, northern Italy. It is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, included in the UNESCO Heritage List in 1997, and one of the largest royal residences in the world, comparable in size and structures to those of Versailles and Caserta (though the latter's park is far larger).
The Palace was designed and built from 1675 by Amedeo di Castellamonte, commissioned by duke Charles Emmanuel II, who needed a base for his hunting expeditions in the heathy hill country north of Turin. The name itself derives from Latin, Venatio Regia meaning "Royal Hunt".

The design was commissioned from architects Amedeo di Castellamonte and Michelangelo Garove. The plan of the annexed borough was to symbolize the collar symbol of the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, a dynastic order created by the House of Savoy. In 1675 the borough and the palace were nearly completed, including the so-called Reggia di Diana (Royal Residence of Diana, the heart of the complex. Works however continued until the next century, as in 1693 French invasion troops are known to have destroyed some buildings and Duke (future King) Victor Amadeus II had the residence modified according to French canons.
Further damage was inflicted during the Siege of Turin (1706), when the French troops under Louis d'Aubusson de La Feuillade were billeted there. After the Savoyard victory, Victor Amadeus named Filippo Juvarra as director of the works. It was here that during the reign of Charles Emmanuel III that his third wife died giving birth to son. The structure was rarely used after.
During the Napoleonic domination, the structures were turned into barracks and the gardens destroyed to create a training ground. The complex maintained this role also after the fall of Napoleon, and was hold by the Italian Army until 1978, when it was sold to the Ministry of Culture. Restoration works (not finished as of 2009) were begun, but most of the complex was open for tourism from 13 October 2007.

http://www.lavenaria.it/index_eng.shtml

http://tinypic.com/

normy89 · October 31st, 2011, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Chadoh25

Beautiful!

normy89 · November 7th, 2011, 02:13 PM

Torino - Italy's first Capital City -
-Palazzo Madama-

At the beginning of the first century BC, the site of the palace was occupied by a gate in the Roman walls from which the decumanus maximus of Augusta Taurinorum (the ancient name of Turin) departed. Two of the towers, although restored, still testify to this original nucleus. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the gate was used as a fortified stronghold in the defences of the city.

Later the building became a possession of the Savoia-Acaja, a secondary branch of the House of Savoy; in the early fourteenth century, they enlarged it into a castle. A century later Ludovico of Acaja rebuilt it in square shape, with an inner court and a portico, and four cylindrical towers at each corner. The form of this edifice is still clearly recognizable from the back section of the palace. After the extinction of the Acajas, the edifice became a residence for guests of the house of Savoy.

In 1637 the regent for Duke Charles II Emmanuel, Christine Marie of France, chose it as her personal residence. She commissioned the covering of the court and a revamping of the inner apartments. Sixty years later another regent, Marie Jeanne of Savoy, lived in the palace, conferring upon it definitively the nickname of Madama (Italian for Madame). She asked architect Filippo Juvarra to design a new Baroque palace in white stone, but the works halted in 1721 after only the front section had been completed.

Overlooking Piazza Castello, the section built by Juvarra (illustration, right) constitutes today a scenographic façade a single bay deep, screening the rear part of the edifice, which has remained unchanged (illustration, above right). On the exterior, Juvarra expressed what was intended as a magnificent architectural preamble to an edifice that was never built, as a high-ceilinged piano nobile with arch-headed windows, which is linked to a mezzanine above it by a colossal order of pilasters of a Composite order. Each pilaster stands on a sturdy and formal fielded channel-rusticated base against the ashlar masonry of the ground floor. The central three bays are emphasised by the bolder relief offered by full columns attached to the façade, which is returned inward behind them to afford a vast glass-fronted central interior space like a glazed loggia. Their prominence is emphasised by the tall socles on which they stand, carved with trophies of arms in relief. In the flanking triple bays, each central bay is broken slightly forwards, given its window a deeper, more shadowed reveal within the depth of the wall; its two outer giant pilasters overlap the main order as if that continued behind them. On either side the bays' windows are set together within a slightly recessed panel, thus there are three layered planes to the façade. The dentiled cornice supported on bold consoles in the frieze breaks forward over the central columns and subtly over the central bays of the flanking sections as well.[1] A conforming balustrade decorated with vases and statues in white marble surmounts the façade.

http://www.palazzomadamatorino.it/?&
http://www.museotorino.it/
http://tinypic.com/

Plaas · November 7th, 2011, 02:57 PM

Paleis het Loo, Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Pics from Wikipedia.

Xorcist · November 7th, 2011, 07:30 PM

the one and only:

Neuschwanstein Bavaria/Germany

italiano_pellicano · November 7th, 2011, 10:16 PM

Torino , Italy

ambiente2008 · November 8th, 2011, 06:35 PM

The Pena National Palace (Portuguese: Palácio Nacional da Pena) is a Romanticist palace in São Pedro de Penaferrim, municipality of Sintra, Portugal. The palace stands on the top of a hill above the town of Sintra, and on a clear day it can be easily seen from Lisbon and much of its metropolitan area. It is a national monument and constitutes one of the major expressions of 19th century Romanticism in the world. It was built about 30 years before the charismatic Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria.

Photo: Costa

Photo: Ambiente2008

ambiente2008 · November 8th, 2011, 06:35 PM

Mafra National Palace - Portugal

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ambiente2008 · November 8th, 2011, 06:40 PM

The Palace of the Dukes of Braganza (Portuguese: Paço dos Duques de Bragança), is a medieval estate and former residence of the first Dukes of Braganza, located in the historical centre of Guimarães (Oliveira do Castelo), in the north-eastern part of Portugal.

It was initiated between 1420 and 1422 by Afonso, Count of Barcelos, the illegitimate son of John I of Portugal (and future Duke of Bragança), after his marriage to his second wife. His prodigeny would occupy the space until the Dukes of Braganza moved to Vila Viçosa, abandoning the palace.

Exterior

Interior

Chapel

photos: JohnnyMass

balthazar · July 22nd, 2012, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by normy89

The Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi

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one of the best, i think.

Sisimoto the HUN · July 23rd, 2012, 04:51 PM

HUNGARY - GÖDÖLLÖ - GRASSALKOVICH CASTLE - The favorite summer residence of Sissy in Hungary!

Sisimoto the HUN · July 23rd, 2012, 05:08 PM

HUNGARY - KESZTHELY - FESTETICS CASTLE

Sisimoto the HUN · July 23rd, 2012, 05:25 PM

HUNGARY - FERTŐD - ESTERHÁZY CASTLE

Sisimoto the HUN · July 23rd, 2012, 05:47 PM

HUNGARY - CSÁKVÁR - ESTERHÁZY CASTLE

Şölen · July 24th, 2012, 03:42 PM

France, Chateaux de Chenonceau;

DocentX · July 25th, 2012, 12:08 PM

Poland :

apart from previousely presented :

Wawel

Royal castle in Warsaw

Wilanów palace

Malbork castle from 1466 served as one of the several Polish royal residences.

image hosted on flickr

October 24th, 2011, 01:45 PM	#22
normy89 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Torino (Turin) Posts: 243 Likes (Received): 70	ITALIA - Torino The Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi (Italian: "The hunting residence[1] of Stupinigi") is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy in northern Italy, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. Built as a royal hunting lodge in the early 18th century, it is located in Stupinigi, a suburb of the city of TURIN. The new palace was designed by the architect Filippo Juvarra to be used as a palazzina di caccia ("hunting lodge") for Vittorio Amedeo II, King of Sardinia. Works started in 1729. Within two years construction was far enough advanced for the first formal hunt to take place. Juvarra called upon a team of decorators, many of them from Venice, to carry out the decor of the palazzina interiors. In the reigns of Carlo Emanuele III and Vittorio Amedeo III the palazzina and its formal park continued to be extended, at first by Juvarra's assistant, Giovanni Tommaso Prunotto, then by numerous North Italian architects, such as Ignazio Birago di Borgaro, Ludovico Bo, Ignazio Bertola and Benedetto Alfieri. The final building has a total of 137 rooms and 17 galleries, and covers 31,050 square meters [1]. Polissena of Hesse-Rotenburg, wife of Carlo Emanuele III also carried out improvements. The original purpose of the hunting lodge is symbolized by the bronze stag perched at the apex of the stepped roof of its central dome, and the hounds' heads that decorate the vases on the roofline. The building has a saltire plan: four angled wings project from the oval-shaped main hall. The extensions resulted in separate pavilions linked by long angled galleries and a long octagonal forecourt enclosed by wings, extended forwards in two further entrance courts. Stupinigi was the preferred building to be used for celebrations and dynastic weddings by members of the House of Savoy. Here, in 1773, Maria Teresa, Princess of Savoy, married Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, brother of Louis XVI and the future Charles X of France.

October 25th, 2011, 08:05 PM	#23
normy89 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Torino (Turin) Posts: 243 Likes (Received): 70	TORINO -Italy- TORINO - Italy's first Capital City - The Castle of Valentino (Italian Castello del Valentino) is an historic building in the north-west Italian city of Turin. It is located in Valentino Park, and is the seat of the Architecture Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Turin. It is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1997. The current structure is due to Princess Christine Marie of France (1606–1663), wife of Victor Amadeus I, who dwelt here from 1630. It has a horseshoe shape, with four round towers at each angle, and a wide inner court with a marble pavement. The ceilings of the false upper floors are clearly in transalpino (i.e. French) style. The façade sports a huge coat of arms of the House of Savoy. Works lasted until 1660. Minor modifications were made in the early nineteenth century; at this time, too, much of the seventeenth-century furniture was carried off by French troops. For the next half century the palace was more or less abandoned and fell into a state of disrepair. Renovations were carried out in 1860 when it was selected as the seat of the engineering faculty of Turin; it has been further restored in recent years. Today it is the central building of the Architecture faculty of the Polytechnic University of Turin. The Orto Botanico dell'Università di Torino, a historic botanical garden in the castle grounds. http://tinypic.com/ Last edited by normy89; November 29th, 2011 at 06:15 PM.

October 31st, 2011, 02:36 PM	#25
normy89 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Torino (Turin) Posts: 243 Likes (Received): 70	TORINO - Italy's first Capital City - Reggia di Venaria Reale The Palace of Venaria (Italian: Reggia di Venaria Reale) is a former royal residence located in Venaria Reale, near Turin, in Piedmont, northern Italy. It is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, included in the UNESCO Heritage List in 1997, and one of the largest royal residences in the world, comparable in size and structures to those of Versailles and Caserta (though the latter's park is far larger). The Palace was designed and built from 1675 by Amedeo di Castellamonte, commissioned by duke Charles Emmanuel II, who needed a base for his hunting expeditions in the heathy hill country north of Turin. The name itself derives from Latin, Venatio Regia meaning "Royal Hunt". The design was commissioned from architects Amedeo di Castellamonte and Michelangelo Garove. The plan of the annexed borough was to symbolize the collar symbol of the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, a dynastic order created by the House of Savoy. In 1675 the borough and the palace were nearly completed, including the so-called Reggia di Diana (Royal Residence of Diana, the heart of the complex. Works however continued until the next century, as in 1693 French invasion troops are known to have destroyed some buildings and Duke (future King) Victor Amadeus II had the residence modified according to French canons. Further damage was inflicted during the Siege of Turin (1706), when the French troops under Louis d'Aubusson de La Feuillade were billeted there. After the Savoyard victory, Victor Amadeus named Filippo Juvarra as director of the works. It was here that during the reign of Charles Emmanuel III that his third wife died giving birth to son. The structure was rarely used after. During the Napoleonic domination, the structures were turned into barracks and the gardens destroyed to create a training ground. The complex maintained this role also after the fall of Napoleon, and was hold by the Italian Army until 1978, when it was sold to the Ministry of Culture. Restoration works (not finished as of 2009) were begun, but most of the complex was open for tourism from 13 October 2007. http://www.lavenaria.it/index_eng.shtml http://tinypic.com/ Last edited by normy89; November 29th, 2011 at 06:16 PM.

November 7th, 2011, 02:13 PM	#27
normy89 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Torino (Turin) Posts: 243 Likes (Received): 70	Torino - Italy's first Capital City - -Palazzo Madama- At the beginning of the first century BC, the site of the palace was occupied by a gate in the Roman walls from which the decumanus maximus of Augusta Taurinorum (the ancient name of Turin) departed. Two of the towers, although restored, still testify to this original nucleus. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the gate was used as a fortified stronghold in the defences of the city. Later the building became a possession of the Savoia-Acaja, a secondary branch of the House of Savoy; in the early fourteenth century, they enlarged it into a castle. A century later Ludovico of Acaja rebuilt it in square shape, with an inner court and a portico, and four cylindrical towers at each corner. The form of this edifice is still clearly recognizable from the back section of the palace. After the extinction of the Acajas, the edifice became a residence for guests of the house of Savoy. In 1637 the regent for Duke Charles II Emmanuel, Christine Marie of France, chose it as her personal residence. She commissioned the covering of the court and a revamping of the inner apartments. Sixty years later another regent, Marie Jeanne of Savoy, lived in the palace, conferring upon it definitively the nickname of Madama (Italian for Madame). She asked architect Filippo Juvarra to design a new Baroque palace in white stone, but the works halted in 1721 after only the front section had been completed. Overlooking Piazza Castello, the section built by Juvarra (illustration, right) constitutes today a scenographic façade a single bay deep, screening the rear part of the edifice, which has remained unchanged (illustration, above right). On the exterior, Juvarra expressed what was intended as a magnificent architectural preamble to an edifice that was never built, as a high-ceilinged piano nobile with arch-headed windows, which is linked to a mezzanine above it by a colossal order of pilasters of a Composite order. Each pilaster stands on a sturdy and formal fielded channel-rusticated base against the ashlar masonry of the ground floor. The central three bays are emphasised by the bolder relief offered by full columns attached to the façade, which is returned inward behind them to afford a vast glass-fronted central interior space like a glazed loggia. Their prominence is emphasised by the tall socles on which they stand, carved with trophies of arms in relief. In the flanking triple bays, each central bay is broken slightly forwards, given its window a deeper, more shadowed reveal within the depth of the wall; its two outer giant pilasters overlap the main order as if that continued behind them. On either side the bays' windows are set together within a slightly recessed panel, thus there are three layered planes to the façade. The dentiled cornice supported on bold consoles in the frieze breaks forward over the central columns and subtly over the central bays of the flanking sections as well.[1] A conforming balustrade decorated with vases and statues in white marble surmounts the façade. http://www.palazzomadamatorino.it/?& http://www.museotorino.it/ http://tinypic.com/ Last edited by normy89; November 29th, 2011 at 06:16 PM.

November 7th, 2011, 02:57 PM	#28
Plaas MP Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Alkmaar Posts: 4,711 Likes (Received): 80	Paleis het Loo, Apeldoorn, Netherlands Pics from Wikipedia. __________________ Praatjes en plaatjes: - Plaas' vermannen - Alkmaar 1, 2, 3, 4.

October 19th, 2011, 06:03 PM	#21
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,569 Likes (Received): 248	Awesome Thread!

October 27th, 2011, 09:15 PM	#24
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,569 Likes (Received): 248	Beautiful!

November 7th, 2011, 07:30 PM	#29
Xorcist Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Berlin Posts: 513 Likes (Received): 36	the one and only: Neuschwanstein Bavaria/Germany Last edited by Xorcist; November 7th, 2011 at 07:42 PM.

November 7th, 2011, 10:16 PM	#30
italiano_pellicano BANNED Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Los Angeles , US / Cancun , MX Posts: 18,011 Likes (Received): 631	Torino , Italy

November 8th, 2011, 06:35 PM	#31
ambiente2008 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Lisboa Posts: 4,464 Likes (Received): 155	The Pena National Palace (Portuguese: Palácio Nacional da Pena) is a Romanticist palace in São Pedro de Penaferrim, municipality of Sintra, Portugal. The palace stands on the top of a hill above the town of Sintra, and on a clear day it can be easily seen from Lisbon and much of its metropolitan area. It is a national monument and constitutes one of the major expressions of 19th century Romanticism in the world. It was built about 30 years before the charismatic Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria. Photo: Costa Photo: Costa Photo: Ambiente2008 Photo: Ambiente2008

November 8th, 2011, 06:40 PM	#33
ambiente2008 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Lisboa Posts: 4,464 Likes (Received): 155	The Palace of the Dukes of Braganza (Portuguese: Paço dos Duques de Bragança), is a medieval estate and former residence of the first Dukes of Braganza, located in the historical centre of Guimarães (Oliveira do Castelo), in the north-eastern part of Portugal. It was initiated between 1420 and 1422 by Afonso, Count of Barcelos, the illegitimate son of John I of Portugal (and future Duke of Bragança), after his marriage to his second wife. His prodigeny would occupy the space until the Dukes of Braganza moved to Vila Viçosa, abandoning the palace. Exterior Interior Chapel photos: JohnnyMass

July 23rd, 2012, 04:51 PM	#35
Sisimoto the HUN Registered User Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 17 Likes (Received): 1	HUNGARY - GÖDÖLLÖ - GRASSALKOVICH CASTLE - *The favorite summer residence of Sissy in Hungary!* Last edited by Sisimoto the HUN; July 23rd, 2012 at 05:05 PM.

July 23rd, 2012, 05:08 PM	#36
Sisimoto the HUN Registered User Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 17 Likes (Received): 1	HUNGARY - KESZTHELY - FESTETICS CASTLE Last edited by Sisimoto the HUN; July 23rd, 2012 at 05:20 PM.

July 23rd, 2012, 05:25 PM	#37
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July 23rd, 2012, 05:47 PM	#38
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July 24th, 2012, 03:42 PM	#39
Şölen Registered User Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: tb Ankara & Istanbul Posts: 52 Likes (Received): 0	France, Chateaux de Chenonceau;

July 25th, 2012, 12:08 PM	#40
DocentX Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Warsaw Posts: 6,083 Likes (Received): 89	Poland : apart from previousely presented : Wawel Royal castle in Warsaw Wilanów palace Malbork castle from 1466 served as one of the several Polish royal residences. image hosted on flickr __________________ 'Dream as if you'll live forever - live as you'll die today' Last edited by DocentX; July 25th, 2012 at 12:15 PM.

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