The rooms

Room 1 - West Entrance Hall

Welcome to the first room on the ‘piano nobile’ (noble floor), the West Entrance Hall, accessible via the monumental marble staircase on the western side of the Palace.

The room was heated by a fireplace and furnished with a square-shaped crystal lamp and a mahogany table with ten chairs of the same material, upholstered in green leather and embellished with brass studs.

The walls were painted in a shade similar to ‘straw yellow’ and decorated in chiaroscuro with

Room 2 - Boudoir

The architect Francesco Collecini placed the Boudoir, a four-roomed complex for private use in the English style, next to the bedroom.

Like the one in the Royal Palace of Caserta, it consists of a Dressing Room, a Retreat and two small toilets, i.e. small rooms for private use, generally found in every noble palace or apartment.

The Dressing Room had the walls painted in a “paonazzo” colour, a very

Room 3 - Bedroom

The Bedroom had valuable “au naturel” flower decorations and overdoors by Andrea Giusti depicting scenes of birds and other animals hunting.

This room was heated by a fireplace with a wooden firewall and precious andirons, both depicting hunting dogs biting a partridge and a rabbit, respectively.

The French furniture had been purchased at Maison Daguerre & Lignereux, which operated in France and England and ha

Room 4 - Dining Room

The Dining Room, adjacent to the Gallery, was adorned with green silk curtains and overdoors depicting hunting scenes, painted in monochrome and antique style by Carlo Brunelli.

On the walls of the room, the king had placed portraits of his best hunters, Gennaro Rossi and Domenico Salerno, together with his pedigree dogs. However, during the Savoy family’s reign, the original paintings were replaced with four paintings by Gaetano Cusati, titled: All