Palazzo Madama, Turin

Palazzo Madama is a palace on Piazza Castello in Turin that grew from a Roman gate and a medieval castle of the Savoy-Achaea branch of the dynasty. It takes its name from two royal widows, Christine of France and Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours, who lived there as regents in the seventeenth century, and Filippo Juvarra gave it a baroque façade in 1718–1721. It later housed the Subalpine Senate and is now Turin's civic museum of ancient art.