Via Pietro Micca and Piazza Solferino

It begins from piazza Castello; traced in a diagonal way in 1885, it was realized, mainly in first stretch, with buildings of eclectic style, on drawings by Carlo Ceppi, to whom is due the new façade realized in 1897 of the 16th century Franciscan church of San Tommaso.

Via Pietro Micca

A major attention would deserve personalities like the engineer S. Sacchetti, and from his studio seems to have projected in 1891 and in 1896 a great part of the buildings of the central stretch.

The street leads to the long and narrow piazza Solferino, overlooking the Teatro Alfieri (Barnaba Panizza, 1857): in the centre the fountain Angelica delle Quattro stagioni (Giovanni Riva , 1930) and the equestrian statue to Ferdinando duke of Genoa (Alfonso Balzico, 1877).

In January 2004 it was inaugurated in piazza Solferino the pavilions projected by Giorgetto Giugiaro Atrium Città and Atrium 2006, two spectacular structures in glass and steel with the aim to promote the tourist and cultural services of the city and the Winter Olympic Games of 2006.
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