Il primo Ampliamento barocco Torino

If in the first phase of the expansion the long and narrow lots of the New district are destined to a social class of merchants and craftsmen, in the second half of the seventeenth century, a new nobility, always in competition with the court, requires larger lots to make representative buildings. The first baroque palaces designed by Amedeo di Castellamonte - the Trucchi palaces of Levaldigi, Gonteri di Cavaglià and Lascaris - and by Guarino Guarini - Palazzo Carignano and Palazzo Provana of Collegno were born in the district, on the side streets of the uniform Nuova district; new and original architectures which, however, unlike other European examples, do not arrive at extreme forms, but to some extent adhere to the criteria of urban composition.