VENARIA REALE, Gardens

After visiting the Palace's interior, now it's time to enjoy the beautiful gardens that extend to the side and behind the residence and fade into the woods on the horizon. I suggest using the path that runs through the entire garden as a reference point; it's called Allea Reale. As you can see, the gardens are a series of tree-lined terraces connected by scenic stairs, ponds, flowerbeds, fountains, and experimental crops, but know that they haven't all had it so easy: a few months before the Palace's reopening in June 2007, the gardens were totally devastated by a storm.

To give you an idea of the spaces here, let me tell you that Venaria covers about 5,000 square meters, the garden covers about 80,000, and the forest another 80 hectares! Now you can understand why the residence of Venaria can even be compared with the great French Palace of Versailles!

Behind the Chapel, the great architect Filippo Juvarra designed the unbelievably expensive Orangerie, where citrus trees are placed in the winter along with the most delicate essences....