The Contrada Nuova
Via Roma is the axis of the first expansion project of the Roman city, commissioned by Emanuele Filiberto and carried out by his successor Carlo Emanuele I, in the early decades of the 1600s. The street, called "Contrada Nuova", expanded with Piazza S.Carlo and defined the blocks up to the Porta Nuova, based on a project by the ducal architect Ascanio Vittozzi, taken up again and built by his pupil Carlo di Castellamonte.
The map, from 1643, still shows the sign of the Roman walls and the space outside the walls, empty, which will then be occupied by Piazza S. Carlo, while the blocks towards the Porta Nuova are already defined
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