Duke Charles Emmanuel II commissioned the palace as a hunting base north of Turin. The infobox gives construction from 1675, while the history section says it was commissioned in 1658. Amedeo di Castellamonte made the original design. After 1693 Victor Amadeus II rebuilt it to rival Versailles, with Michelangelo Garove enlarging it from 1699 and Filippo Juvarra completing the Great Gallery and the Chapel of St. Hubert from 1716.
The complex is a masterpiece of Baroque, with French-style gardens. The orangery is 486 feet (148 m) long. The Napoleonic occupation turned the buildings into barracks, and a restoration from 1999 to 2007 reopened it in October 2007.
It is part of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, a UNESCO site since 1997. The article reports over a million visitors in 2017.
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