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The medieval village of Turin

The Medieval Village and fortress of Turin constitute the whole of a museum, albeit sui generis, dedicated to medieval architecture.

In 2016, the museum complex reached 145,000 visitors.

The buildings of the village take up buildings from the 15th century. The village is, in fact, more similar to an archaeological-monumental site and was born inside the Valentino park as a pavilion of the Italian General Exposition which took place in Turin from April to November 1884.

Intended for demolition at the end of the Italian General Exhibition, it became a civic museum in 1942.

It is a fairly faithful reproduction of a typical late medieval village where they are rebuilt on a single street: houses, churches, squares, fountains and decorations of the time, surrounded by palisades walls and fortifications and dominated by a fortress.

It is accessed from Viale Virgilio through a tower-gate with a drawbridge, from Viale Enrico Millo at the embarkation point for the boat from the staircase of the Rivoli gate and also from Viale Enrico Millo from the driveway near the entrance of the Ex- San Giorgio restaurant.

In the village there are also craft shops since 1884.

In 1884 the village housed the workshops of the potter, the weaver, the apothecary, the carpenter and the blacksmith.

An illustrated guided tour is presented in detail in the catalog of the Universal Exhibition in the History of Art section.

La Rocca is a copy of several Piedmontese and Valle d'Aosta castles, consists of four floors: the basement which houses the prisons; the ground floor, on the other hand, the entrance, the atrium, the courtyard, the soldiers' bedroom, the kitchens (of the servants and nobles) and the dining room.

The first floor houses the guardian's room that controlled access to the fortress, the baronial antechamber, the baronial hall (copy of the Spaniards room of the Manta castle of Saluzzo), the bedroom inspired by the room of the King of France of the Issogne castle, the oratory, the chamber of the Bridesmaid, and the chapel.

Map: The medieval village of Turin