The University Palace is an eighteenth-century bui...

The University Palace is an eighteenth-century building in Turin and stands on the block between Via Verdi and via Po.
It was built at the behest of Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy who at the beginning of the 18th century planned a major reform of the University of Turin. The project was by Michelangelo Garove, who delivered it in 1713, the year of his death, and then the Genoese architect Giovanni Antonio Ricca il Vecchio was entrusted with the execution, who built the portico and loggia courtyard, unlike the Garove project , which provided for blind arches. The construction of the building was completed in 1720 and the inauguration took place on November 7 of that year.
Between 1715 and 1726, Filippo Juvarra, author of the brick facade facing via Verdi, contributed to the palace, while the one on via Po is uniform with respect to the other buildings of the historic street.
The most spectacular element of the building is the internal courtyard with double porch. Of particular value is also the neoclassical entrance portal on Via Verdi, a 1834 work by Giuseppe Talucchi.
Since its construction it has been the seat of the University of Turin.
Today it houses its offices, the headquarters of the Rectorate and is also home to some faculties of the University of Turin.