Juvarra dreamed a colossal palace for the Savoys and a fragment remains: Rivoli castle, unfinished and mighty, has been since 1984 the first contemporary art museum founded in Italy — Baroque halls conversing with Cattelan, Penone and Arte Povera, the "long sleeve" wing stretching the collection along a 140-metre gallery.
Contrast is its genius: frescoed ceilings above, installations below. At the castle's feet, the pedestrian old town lives on cafés and shops; Turin is thirty minutes by light rail, and the morainic hills open trails toward the Sacra di San Michele.
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