The very same building also features the Egyptian Museum. Created in 1824 by Carlo Felice, it is the oldest of its kind in the world and the second most important after Cairo, housing over 30,000 exhibits.

Palazzo Madama is a building that symbolises two thousand years of the city’s history. In 1848 it became the seat of the Subalpine Senate and it has been the home of the Museum of Ancient Art since 1934, featuring a vast collection of three thousand paintings, miniatures, sculptures, ceramics, furniture, tapestries, gold and silver that date from the Byzantine period right up to the modern era. Opposite Palazzo Madama is the Church of S. Lorenzo, while the ‘Duomo’ (‘Cathedral’) and the ‘Palazzo Reale’ (‘Royal Palace’) stand to its right. The cathedral is flanked by the Chapel of the Holy Shroud and its beautiful dome designed by Guarini. The chapel has preserved and periodically displayed the Holy Shroud since 1684.

Behind the State Archive and the ‘Teatro Regio’ (‘Royal Theatre’) extends the Riding Area, which is dominated by the towering form of the Mole Antonelliana, the city’s best known landmark, built in 1863 according to Alessandro Antonelli’s design. The ‘Mole’, 167 metres high, is the tallest brickwork building in the world and houses the National Cinema Museum, a spectacular multimedia exhibition created to celebrate cinema from its origins right up to the present day.