Turin - Palazzo dell'Accademia delle Scienze

The Palazzo dell'Accademia delle Scienze in Turin houses the Egyptian Museum, one of the finest collections of Egyptian antiquities in the world, with numerous statues of pharaohs of the New Kingdom, including Rameses II, papyruses and two tomb chambers from Thebes.

Via Maria Vittoria runs from the church southeast to the Piazza Carlo Emanuele II, where there is a marble monument (1873) to Camillo Cavour (1810-61), a native of Turin, the great statesman who achieved Italian unity, and the church of Santa Croce, designed by Juvarra in 1718.

East of the Academy of Sciences in Via Maria Vittoria the church of San Filippo Neri was begun in 1675 and rebuilt by Juvarra in 1714; the porch was added in 1835. The church has a fine interior.