Il primo Ampliamento barocco Torino

The first studies for the expansion of the city are affected by the Renaissance culture and propose a radiocentric structure, surrounded by walls that connect to the citadel and the old Roman fortifications - medieval. This approach to the new extension is soon abandoned in favour of a rigid geometric mesh, based on rectilinear elements between them orthogonal, in continuation of the urban axes existing within the walls: a clear reference to the origins of the Roman city, but also a new rationalistic spirit, almost Cartesian.