👑The Queen's villa, Turin, Italy | La villa della Regina, Torino, Italia 2018

Villa della Regina is a sixtieth Turin villa located in the eastern-hill part of the city, in the Borgo Po district. Built at the will of Maurizio of Savoy - first cardinal and then, from 1641, prince of Oneglia - and passed on to his wife Ludovica (or Luisa Cristina) of Savoy, later it was chosen as a place of summer residence first by Anna Maria d'Orleans and then by Polissena d'Assia, queen of Sardinia, from which the name she is known. Since 1869 it was donated by Savoia to the National Institute for the Daughters of Italian Soldiers. It is part of the circuit of the Sabaude Residences in Piedmont and since 1997 it is inscribed to the Human Heritage List as part of the UNESCO Sabaude Residences serial site.