from Editore Giovanni Battista Maggi 1834.
The new Contrada through Porta Nuova
After the demolition of the walls (imposed by Napoleon), the outlet of the (new) Contrada towards the Porta Nuova becomes the reason for a new urban development. in 1830 the monumental design of the two isolated trapezoids opens onto a large square (immediately called "King's square"). This square, never finished in the built-up fronts, which after 40 years is resized and becomes the green atrium of the city for those who get off the train: Carlo Felice square at the Porta Nuova Station.
The plan of the city by Maggi (1834) shows, in black, the novelties: the completion of the seventeenth-century project and the beginning of the eighteenth century one of the Strada del Re (the current Corso Vittorio Emanuele II) towards the Po.
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