The Savoy Estates of the Ducal Castle of Agliè (Turin) and its rural territory. Studies for a sustainable
enhancement
The Castle of Agliè (Turin), together with wide neighboring agricultural areas – in the past centuries
organized in a rational and well-defined way – definitely constitute a “cultural landscape”, whose unitary
conception and cultural representativeness has been loosening progressively, with the fragmentation of
the territorial components. Looking for solutions to restore the Agliè Castle Estates in their original deep
relational ties with the Castle, the “Urban Restoration and Enhancement Atelier B” (2014-15) carried on
hypothesis of restoration and enhancement; they offered coherent answers with the need that safeguarding
cultural heritage should be integrated with the re-functionalization, producing resources able to support
the owner, as well as the properties. When the heritage’s new use is configured safeguarding its cultural
identity, improving the public enjoyment, it fully turns into a ‘substenible’ enhancement act, since it’s able
to generate cultural as well as economic benefits.
