Appartamenti Storici di Palazzo Barolo

Palazzo Falletti di Barolo is one of the most significant and best-preserved examples of a 17th-century noble residence.
At the end of the 17th century, Ottavio Provana di Druent commissioned Gian Francesco Baroncelli to renovate the family palace and commissioned artists from Lombardy, Rome and Genoa to decorate its interior. On the count's death, the palace passed to the Falletti di Barolo family who commissioned Benedetto Alfieri to decorate some of the rooms on the first floor.
The last owners were Carlo Tancredi and Giulia Colbert di Maulévrier, married in Paris in 1806, who turned it into Turin's most famous salon of the Risorgimento, but also an authentic centre of Christian charity and social innovation. In those same years, the Marquises, bound by a deep sense of friendship, welcomed Silvio Pellico as secretary and librarian.
Since Giulia's death in 1864, the Palazzo has been the headquarters of the Opera Barolo, the institution created by testamentary disposition to cultivate the heritage of values at the service of the city.