Mole Antonelliana

Symbol of the city and daring building, it was begun in 1862 by Alessandro Antonelli as a Jewish temple; after a period of stop, the works began again in 1878 with the construction over the vault of a granite room, on which a lantern made of two floors and then a high cone which transforms the square plan into a circle plan are based.

The Mole Antonelliana

A series of conic and cylindrical elements completes the already high spire; these elements end with a cusp of pyramidal shape on and octagonal plan, realised in two separate parts.
A genius with wings on the spire ends the works in 1889, when the direction of the building yard is passed to Costanzo Antonelli, son of the dead architect.

The Mole, with its 163,35 metres high, is the tallest brick building in the world.
In August 1904 an hurricane knocked over the statue, substituted by a star, and in 1953 a storm knocked over more than 40 metres of the cusp, substituted between 1958-61 by a metal structure covered in stone, also reinforcing the inferior structures.

Inside a room in square plan is covered by a nerved pavilion vault, outside the four sides take an homogeneous configuration.

A panoramic lift leads to the little temple under the spire, from which you can enjoy a beautiful city landscape and of the surrounding mountains.

The Mole is the actual seat of the National Museum of Cinema.