Quartieri militari Torino

In the early years of the 18th century, while the project of the "almond" of the city walls was completed, Michelangelo Garove, engineer and ducal architect, was in charge of solving the various problems related to the expansion west-construction and defensive - and was also faced with the theme of the "gate": that is, the relationship between the city and its surrounding territory. The new gate on the bastion opened onto the Rivoli road, also designed by Garove. While the military works were completed before the siege of 1706, the plan of parcelling of land, defined by the checkerboard shirt of the blocks, was postponed for a few years.