Galleria Umberto I Torino

The nineteenth-century urban transformation processes change the role of the neighborhood. With the demolition of the walls the attractive power of the market grew and with it the commercial role of the whole area pushed to transform the uses and the buildings. In 1860, a project concerned the blocks next to the Porte Palatine, with demolitions and new buildings. In 1887, when the Mauritian Order obtained authorization for the sale of the Mauritian hospital.