Via Garibaldi

Roman decuman and Medieval main route, the "Contrada di Dora Grossa", now via Garibaldi confirmed its mainly commercial characteristic, when the city expansion towards west and the restructuring of the ancient urban core was decided by the Savoy dukedom.

Via Garibaldi

After the edification of the fortifying walls west of the city (1702) a plan of lotting out of the lands was compiled and it foresaw the choice of via Dora Grossa and of the parallel via Corte d'Appello as main axis to rectify and to which linked the new expansion (Michelangelo Garove, 1711).

Filippo Juvarra was the first royal architect to catch the inheritance left by the ducal architect Garove and to interpret the restructuring of the contrada di Dora Grossa in the new functional and physical definition of the city strongly wanted by the king Vittorio Amedeo II.
The main point of the project of Juvarra was to re-project the façade of Palazzo Madama, the head of the contrada.

Important pre-existences of the streets are some religious buildings of the 16th and 17th century: the church of the SS. Trinità, the church of San Dalmazzo and the boarding school of the Barnabite fathers (plant of the year 1702) in the north side and in the opposite one the church of the Santi Martiri and, in the bottom of the road with the same name, the church of the Misericordia.