Of Charles Inselin from © Archivio Storico della Città di Torino
The city in the maps of the late seventeenth century
In the maps of the end of the seventeenth century you realize the need to represent an orderly city, with the rigid chessboard of the blocks in order to ensure a strong continuity with the old city. The new extension and the redevelopment of the old fabric, planned in the western part, are inserted into the existing fabric, with compositional criteria similar to the extensions to the south and east (via Roma and via Po), pursuing and enriching the general design, deeply representative of royal dignity.
In the engraving of the late 17th century you can read the chess board of the blocks that continues also in the west of the almond wall. The construction of the new blocks will begin only in the twenties of the 18th century.
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