The Castle of San Giorgio

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The Halls

Room of Pomegranates

The Room of the Pomegranates forms part of the apartment known as "Chatel d'argent" and is named after the pomegranates that - together with other fruits and plants, such as cocoa, strawberries and cloves - decorate the tapestry painted on the walls to simulate a fabulously rich fabric.
The polychrome ceiling is attractively decorated with an extraordinary variety of scrolls, in the form of acanthus leaves, ornamental motifs, furs and small landscapes. This successful combination was the work of Pietro Antonio Pozzo, and it closely resembles the decoration, also by the same artist, on the ceiling of the "salottino" in the western apartment of the Hunting Palace at Stupinigi.
The green damask pelmets were made for the windows in this room in the 18th century, while the floor is tiled with 18th-century Piedmontese terracotta.

Room of the Trophies

The Room of the Trophies is named after the trophies painted in the lunettes decorating the ceiling, in the centre of the walls.

Exquisitely made stuccoes frame the lunettes and the ceiling sections.
In the corners, elaborate stucco cornices enclose eight floral paintings dating from the 18th century. Below these you can see part of other older paintings featuring groups of putti.

In the centre of the ceiling, again framed by late 17th-century stucco, there are paintings of allegorical figures. The chimney piece is in grey marble from Valdieri (18th century), and the floor is tiled with 18th-century Piedmontese terracotta.
The Counts of Biandrate used this room for gaming and until some thirty years ago, it still contained an 18th-century billiard table.

Room of the Chimeras

The Room of the Chimeras forms part of the apartment known as "Chatel d'argent" and is named after the chimeras that peer out, rather unobtrusively, from the other graceful decorations that embellish the ceiling: it is work of Pietro Antonio Pozzo, who painted a similar theme in the second bedchamber of the west-facing apartment in the Hunting Palace of Stupinigi.
The walls were originally made to look brighter using cream-coloured fabric embroidered with small bunches of flowers in polychrome wool, a form of decoration widely known as "a bandiera".

Room of the Herons

The Room of the Herons forms part of the "white and blue" apartment and is named after the herons that fly between the conifers, volutes and vine tendrils ornamenting the walls.
The chandelier, made long ago by Murano craftsmen, comes from the Russian Embassy at the Savoy Court in Turin.
This was the room where the Savoy princesses were usually received when they visited the countesses of Biandrate.