Italy Guide
Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta
Parco del Valentino
The riverside Parco del Valentino is a pleasant place to wind down after the hum of the city centre. There are two castles here, though only one is the genuine article. The ornate Castello Valentino was another Savoy residence, used mainly for wedding feasts and other extravagant parties, and is nowadays the seat of the university's faculty of architecture, while the Borgo e Rocca Mediovale date from an industrial exhibition held in 1884. The Borgo is a reconstructed medieval village (daily: April– Sept 9am–8pm; Oct– March 9am–7pm; free) whose houses are a synthesis of the best dwellings of medieval Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta, built with the same materials as the originals and using the same construction techniques.