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Royal Rooms

Royal Hall Turin Porta Nuova Station

Royal Hall - Turin Porta Nuova

A historic setting that preserves period decorations and furnishings, evidence of Italy's railway past. Designed in 1864 as a waiting room for the Savoy family, the Gonin room was designed - like the entire Turin Porta Nuova station - by the engineer Alessandro Mazzucchetti. Gonin's gigantic allegories pay homage to the railways, representing the typical elements of the steam engine: the earth (Ceres, goddess of fertility, on a chariot pulled by lions), water (Venus on a shell-shaped chariot pulled by seahorses) and fire (with a representation of the abduction of the nymph Proserpina by Hades, god of the Underworld). The corners of the room, on the other hand, represent the four continents.