Corso Vittorio Emanuele II Torino

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the demolition of the walls commissioned by Napoleon, two large squares were planned in the south and east of the city, at the Porta di Po in Piazza Vittorio and the Porta Nuova in Piazza Carlo Felice. The two grandes places were connected by tree-lined avenues that were part of the great ring of ring-road avenues. Two of these avenues corresponded to the first section of Viale del Re- corso Vittorio Emanuele and the current Corso Cairoli. The Plan of Gaetano Lombardi of 1817 provided a band of public gardens, between the Avenue of the King and Via Mazzini.