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Originariamente si trattava di un modesto villino sito al centro di una vigna di proprietà del giurista conte Ludovico Thesauro di Meano. Villino e vigna furono acquistati nel 1622 dalla consorte di Vittorio Amedeo I di Savoia, Cristina di Borbone-Francia, nota come "Madama Reale". Verso la fine degli anni 1640 Cristina commissionò all'architetto carmelitano padre Andrea Costaguta la costruzione di un nuovo palazzo. Il villino venne demolito e padre Costaguta, cui subentrò successivamente Amedeo di Castellamonte, fece erigere su suo progetto fra il 1648 ed il 1653 un vero e proprio palazzo costituito da un corpo centrale e due ali laterali, intorno al quale la vigna venne sostituita da uno splendido parco con giardino, viale alberato, peschiere e pergolati. Alla progettazione della decorazione degli ambienti aveva collaborato anche il favorito di Cristina, conte Filippo San Martino di Agliè. Cristina lo elesse a sua dimora dal 1653 fino alla sua morte, avvenuta dieci anni dopo. Dopo la morte di Cristina, la villa divenne residenza delle amanti del figlio, Carlo Emanuele II di Savoia, la marchesa di Cavour Maria Giovanna di Trecesson e Gabriella di Mesmes de Marolles, contessa delle Lanze. Morto Carlo Emanuele, la vedova Maria Giovanna Battista di Savoia Nemours, madre di Vittorio Amedeo II (futuro re di Sicilia e poi re di Sardegna, oltre che duca di Savoia), detta anch'essa "Madama Reale", vendette la villa nel 1679 all'Ospedale di Carità, dal quale fu riacquistata solo cinque anni dopo dal figlio Vittorio Amedeo. Vi s'installò allora la "Contessa di Verrua" (Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes), amante di Vittorio Amedeo, cui aveva dato già due figli illegittimi, che vi rimase fino al 1703, allorché venne occupata da un grosso contingente militare. Utilizzata come palazzo di rappresentanza fino verso il 1707, venne acquistata nuovamente dall'Ospedale di Carità, che nel 1724 la vendette ad un certo Buscaglione, segretario della ex amante di Carlo Emanuele II, Gabriella di Mesmes de Marolles, che la rivendette presto ai Missionari della Congregazione di San Vincenzo de' Paoli. Nel 1797 la villa venne riacquistata da Carlo Emanuele IV ma poco dopo, con l'occupazione francese del Piemonte e la cacciata in Sardegna di Carlo Emanuele, la villa venne confiscata come bene nazionale e fu abitata per un paio di anni scarsi da Paolina Borghese, sorella di Napoleone Bonaparte e moglie del principe Camillo Borghese, nominato da Napoleone Governatore del Piemonte. Lasciata da Paolina, la villa si vide amputare le due ali. Utilizzata come ricovero per feriti delle campagne di Napoleone, con la restaurazione del 1814 la villa tornò di proprietà dei Savoia e Vittorio Emanuele I la vendette a certa signora Morelli in Rosso; passò quindi alla famiglia Prever, che la tenne a lungo per poi rivenderla ad altri privati finché, nel 1932, fu acquistata da Werner Abegg, dirigente d'azienda e mecenate di origine svizzera. La villa è citata un'operetta del 1667, scritta sotto pseudonimo da Filippo d'Agliè, e da C. M. Audiberti nella sua opera 'Regiae Villae' del 1711. Oggi la villa è proprietà del Comune di Torino e vi ha sede l'Archivio storico della Compagnia di San Paolo. Fonte: Wikipedia.
"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
Day 50 - Best Viewed Large On Black
Stillness and calm, the water like a mirror...
Sites de Carsid à Dampremy-Marcinelle (Charleroi), avec le haut-fourneau 4 à droite. Le démantèlement progresse ...
“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.” ~Anderson Cooper
Svartifoss, Iceland
Louise Lake is a beautiful little lake that sits beneath the talus slope of Faraway Rock at the south end of Mazama Ridge in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. The park was established on March 2, 1899, as the fifth national park in the United States, preserving 236,381 acres, including all of Mount Rainier, a 14,411-foot stratovolcano. Mount Rainier is surrounded by valleys, waterfalls, lakes, subalpine meadows, and 91,000 acres of old-growth forest.
At Church of São Lourenço / Loulé / Algarve / Portugal
Album of Portugal: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157625906...
some balloons i forgot to upload awhile ago. just going through some old stuff, and adding to my balloons set.
... have a smoke, observe the silence of an abandoned industrial site and be startled by the occasional bird maneuvering through this giant metallic skeleton to reach its nest.
Throne room inside the old factory, where two of the stalls are identified as non-functional. The chair is to wait your turn, I guess.
But when the time comes … how does a man wedge himself in these little enclosures to do his business? Was the average guy really that skinny 125 years ago?
Winning the Pike's Peak race, and placing 6th at Indy, this car went to auction with $6-700,000 estimates, and actually sold for $1.1 Million! Gorgeously restored, this image is from Laguna Seca, and the owner/driver let us sit in it with the Imposing steering wheel dominating your vision.
'As early as 1929, Ab Jenkins set his sights on Indy, but it wasn't until 1931 that he took his best shot. He'd already known George Hunt, Studebaker's testing chief, from his time racing Studebakers in endurance runs in the late Twenties, and according to Gordon Eliot White's "Ab & Marvin Jenkins: The Studebaker Connection and the Mormon Meteors," Studebaker owed Jenkins for his expenses, so he cashed in that IOU in the form of off-the-shelf Studebaker Commander axles, hardware, and a Commander 337-cu.in. straight-eight engine.
He and Hunt then took the lot over to Indianapolis-based Herman Rigling, who built one of his Indy chassis around the components and slid it under a Pop Dreyer-built aluminum body. Somebody - most likely Hunt - spent the time massaging the nine-main-bearing straight-eight with a 6.5:1 compression ratio aluminum cylinder head, four Studebaker truck carburetors, a Scintilla magneto, and a reground camshaft to bump the stock engine's output from 110 to 175 horsepower.
They built the car according to the so-called "junk formula" template that Eddie Rickenbacker initiated for the 1930 Indy 500. Over the prior 20 years, the race entries had grown ever more exotic, expensive, and removed from the vehicles that carmakers offered. In an attempt to lure those carmakers back to supporting Indy, Rickenbacker increased allowable engine displacement from 91.5 cubic inches to 366 cubic inches for heavier, naturally aspirated four-stroke engine-vehicle combinations and re-instituted the riding mechanic.
Jenkins's illness forced him and Hunt to find another driver, Indy veteran Tony Gulotta, who qualified in the No. 37 car at 111 MPH. Along with riding mechanic Carl Riscigno, Gulotta turned in a spectacular performance. While they started in the middle of the pack, according to The Old Motor, Guletta was given the signal to run flat our with 80 laps to go then "passed 18 cars in the next 46 laps and was running in first place when he hit a patch of oil left over from a crash, and went into the wall ending its run." The two men walked away unscathed and Gulotta was credited with 18th place.
Hunt took the car straight back to South Bend to repair it before entering it - still wearing No. 37 - in that year's Pikes Peak hillclimb. While White makes mention of Jenkins's involvement in the car throughout this period, Pikes Peak records list the car as the Hunt Special and another driver, Chuck Myers, drove the car in the event. Myers did well too, beating out Jerry Unser and Glen Shultz with a time of 17 minutes, 10.3 seconds, good enough for an overall win and a course record.'
thanks to Hemming's Motor News.
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