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THE WINDOW LOOKING ON TO THE COURTYARD... OF ELVES AND FAIRIESIt is said that an active Scottish lady, when drawing the world map of fairies and elves, included Turin. Among the places mentioned were two courtyards on via Barbaroux. Careful then - someone is watching you! |
THE TOWER THAT ISN'T THEREIn via Garibaldi, on the corner of via San Tommaso, there used to be a very tall medieval tower that was considered the symbol of Turin. It was knocked down in 1802.Via Garibaldi |
WHAT PIGLETS IN TURIN!Did you know that at the end of the 13th century numerous piglets rummaged around undisturbed in via Dora Grossa? They belonged to the friars of San'Antonio di Ranverso who used the animal fat to prepare a special medicine against shingles. |
MARTYRDOM AND MARTYRSNot even Turin locals know whom the church of the "Saint Martyrs" is dedicated to. According to the legend it was the first Christians, massacred in 300 AC for not wanting to take part in pagan rites. More probably though, they were ordinary citizens executed in the area around the Basse di Dora, beyond Porta Palatina. Saint Giuliana collected, recomposed and buried the corpses outside the city walls, from where they were moved to the new premises in via Dora Grossa, now via Garibaldi. |
BITTERSWEET IS SINKING IN THIS SEAIn the courtyard called the Gamelotto, in via San Tommaso, there was a market for citrus fruits, dried figs and fish. They also sold oil - especially walnut oil, produced by farmers from the hills around Turin (olive oil, imported from the county of Nizza,was very expensive). |
AT CHURCH IN COMPANYIn the past, all companies of arts and crafts had a patron saint, with their own dedicated chapel in various churches within a city. In the Duomo: Painters and Sculptors, Surgeons, Cobblers, Goldsmiths, Bakers, together in the Compagnia di S. Luca; in the Jesuit complex in via Dora Grossa (now via Garibaldi): Bankers, Shopkeepers, Merchants, Nobles and Lawyers; in S. Francesco: Dressmakers, Locksmiths, Masons, Luganese Stonecutters and Stucco Decorators, Apothecaries and Notaries. |
NO LONGER ACROSS, BUT UPDue to the staggering increase in the population, Emanuele Filiberto was forced to authorise additional storeys to the buildings in the area. With houses now five or six floors tall, the roads looked even narrower. But things are never as they seem... |
THE CRINOLINE DISTRICTVia Garibaldi shows its latest fashions throughout the female universe, this district instead owes its name to crinolines - those cumbersome wooden structures which once added volume to ladies' skirts, like in "Gone with the Wind" and were sold nearby in via Barbaroux.On the edges of via Barbaroux, via dei Mercanti and via S. Tommaso |
TOPONYMYVia Giovanni Botero used to be known as the "the hay" district, via Monte di Pietà as the district of "the two oxen and the Royal Hunt" and via Mercanti was known as the district of "San Giuseppe". |
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