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Palazzo Madama

Turin, Italy

Palazzo Madama is a historic palace in the central square of Turin, Italy, that houses the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, the city's museum of ancient art. The building incorporates remains of a Roman gate and a medieval castle, and is fronted by a grand Baroque façade and staircase designed by Filippo Juvarra in the early eighteenth century.

Its collection spans more than ten centuries of art, including paintings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, ceramics, ivories, gold work and decorative arts from the medieval period through the Baroque.