Hotel ed Alberghi economici Torino - Hotel Turin 2006

Valentino Albergo Alberghi economici Torino - Hotel Turin 2006. Welcome. In some points of the modern city they are visible rests of the boundaries with external curtain in bricks. The most important monument and better preserved it is the so-called Palatine (in general N of the boundaries) Door: the two polygonal towers that flank the passages are connected from a central body to two orders of windows. The near theater, in the gardens of Royal Building and under the same building, it occupied an insula of the ancient city behind the boundaries. The city preserves scarce architectural traces of the preceding period its elevation to capital of the dukedom sabaudo (1563). Of the Romanesque period the bell tower of the Consoled one stays (sec. XI, type lombardo); of that Gothic the church of S. Domenico, to whose inside they are important frescos of G. Jaquerio, maximum exponent of the Piedmontese Gothic painting and the oriental part of the Building Madam. This building, symbolic of the history in Turin, it rose englobing a Roman (Porta Pretoria) door and you/he/she was turned into the castle in the sec. XIII-XIV, therefore widened in the sec. XV from Ludovico of Savoia-Acaia; the façade was reconstructed in Baroque style by Juvara in 1718-21; the inside is partly still furnished with furniture of the epoch. Alberghi economici Torino - Hotel Turin 2006. The greatest example of Renaissance architecture is furnished from the cathedral, built in 1491-98 by the Tuscan Meo of the Caprina in sober forms, which it was assistant in the sec. XVII the sumptuous and original Chapel of the S. Shroud, work of G. Guarini (begun in 1668), true masterpiece of the Baroque architecture, unfortunately damaged in 1997 from a fire. Numerous the realizations of the sec. XVI-XVII, when it had beginning the extraordinary work of enlargement promoted by Emanuele Filiberto, that made of Turin one of the greatest European cities. To Ascanio Vittozzi they are owed the setup of the Castle plaza, of the street New (now street Rome) and he/she asked her of the Corpus Domini, of the Trinità and of the Cappuccinis. . To 1630 it goes up again the beautiful castle of the Valentine [1v "10415948" [0v, planned by Amedeo of Castellamonte on the type of the French castles of the sec. XVI.

Alberghi economici Torino - Hotel Turin 2006