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CARLO EMANUELE II SQUARE: EVERYONE CALLS IT "CARLINA"If you're lost and need to find the way, don't ask people for piazza Carlo Emanuele II: everybody calls it "piazza Carlina", from the nickname given to the Savoy for his "reduced" stature and his effeminate manners. |
VIA DEI MILLE: GARIBALDI'S HEADQUARTERSThe ancient "contrada di San Lazzaro" was renamed via dei Mille because here, on the corner with via della Rocca, Garibaldi established the recruitment headquarters for those Piedmontese volunteering to enrol amongst the Mille. To remind us of it there is a monument to the "hero of two worlds" where the street enters corso Cairoli. |
PALAZZO CAMPANA: IT WITNESSED A... '68From Palazzo Campana, one of Turin University's premises, in via Carlo Alberto 10, the student protests of 1968 began. |
YOU WERE SMALL... BUSCAGLIONE'S HOUSEFred Buscaglione, Turinese singer of "Eri piccola", lived in piazza Cavour 3 as a child: his mother was the building's porter. |  |
GRAMSCI, "RED" AND "BLACK" TURINAs testified by a plate Antonio Gramsci, at the time secretary of Turin's socialist section, lived at in piazza Carlina at n. 15 between 1919 and 1921. The same building also hosted the editors of his newspaper "L'Ordine Nuovo". During 1920 Gramsci gave life to the first factory workers' occupation of Lingotto, the new Fiat factory. During Fascism the red headquarters in piazza Carlina were evacuated by "The Black Shirts" incursion. |
D'AZEGLIO "FILTHY" AND "IMPIOUS RIVAL"Massimo d'Azeglio, as an inscription testifies, was born in Palazzo Tapparelli - d'Azeglio, in via Principe Amedeo 34. The nobleman was a real bohemian and therefore the ladies in the court used to call him "lo sporcaciun", the filthy. When he became Vittorio Emanuele the second's Prime Minister, Cavour, at that time Financial Minister, defined him "impious rival" and subsequently forced him to resign. |
BORGO NUOVO FIRST OUTSIDE THEN INSIDE THE CITYIn 1673, under Duke Carlo Emanuele II,the architect Amedeo di Castellamonte enlarged Turin eastwards, towards the Po and beyond the city walls: this is how Borgo Nuovo began. The area remained outside the walls until the 19th Century when Napoleon demolished them. The defensive bastions were located where today piazza Cavour and the Aiuola Balbo stand. The fascinating hills in the square are due to the remains of those ancient fortifications. |
LOSING YOUR HEAD IN PIAZZA CARLINADuring Napoleon's occupation piazza Carlina became piazza della Libertà and hosted the guillotine.The first head to fall was that of a woman, the "bela caplera" (beautiful hat maker). Between 1800 and 1815 as many as 400 executions took place. After the restoration, the square was given its original name again but continued to witness horrors: the hanging pole replaced the guillotine. |
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