Palazzo Carignano
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Palazzo Carignano is an historical building in the center of Turin.
Now it hosts the National Museum of Italian Risorgimento.
[edit] Building
In the second half of the XVII century Emanuele Filiberto commissioned Guarino Guarini to design a palace for his family. The building, made of bricks, is atypical baroque style. It has an elliptical center façade. The decorations over the windows of the piano nobile recall the campaign of the Carignano family with the French against the Iroquois in 1667.
[edit] History
From 1848 to 1861 the palace was used for the House of Deputies of the Subalpine Parliament. In 1861, with the new Italian parliament, the room was too small to host the House of Deputies.
