Palazzo della Vittoria

Peculiar place to visit

Amazing

Beautiful and impressive

Liberty style 1920, created to celebrate Italy's victory in the First World War.

In the district of Cit Turin, not far from the famous and magical Piazza Statuto, there is the Palazzo della Vittoria, also known by the name of Casa Carrera or Casa dei Draghi. The magnificent building was commissioned by the Knight of Labor Giovanbattista Carrera to celebrate the victory of the First World War (hence the name of the House of Victory) and entrusted to the engineer Gottardo Gussoni who finished the work in 1922. The palace is certainly among the most valuable examples in the city of the skilful mix between the neo-Gothic French style and the liberty style that was so fashionable in Turin at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The House of Dragons is built on five floors and is richly decorated with details attributable to the two architectural styles. The splendid entrance door, the internal atrium and the stairs, the crenellated turret and the balustrades of the balconies on the upper floor are of strong neo-Gothic French style, while some details such as the windows and the same sinuous line of the building refer directly to the liberty imprint of those years. otevolNi then are the many details that enrich and adorn this beautiful building such as the two winged dragons that are located on the sides of the large entrance door and which were to be an allegory of the power and importance of Italy post world war (the dragon theme is taken up in several places both on the outside and on the inside of the house). The door is then surmounted by the Carrera family coat of arms and full of other zoomorphic and allegorical details as well as the whole building in general.