Long before the stadium, there was the farmhouse

Cascina Barolo was built in the late eighteenth century on the edge of Turin, when there were only fields around it. It carries the name of the family that owned it: the Marquises of Barolo, the same family that gave the wine its name and left a lasting mark on the civic history of the city.

Local memory ties the building to the circle of Filippo Juvarra, the architect who in those same years was redrawing the city and the Savoy residences not far away. Anyone who knows the Royal Palace of Venaria, two kilometres from here, will recognise the same hand of that period in the volumes and the proportions.

Then the city grew. First the houses, then the roads, then the Delle Alpi stadium and finally, in 2011, the Allianz Stadium. The farmhouse stayed where it was, with its courtyard, its thick walls and a quiet that on match nights surprises anyone stepping in through the gate.

The three rooms are made within the original spaces. We have not tried to make the farmhouse look more modern than it is: the ceilings, the windows and the proportions are the ones it has always had, and we think that is part of why guests write to us that it feels like being at home.