Via Roma

It leads to piazza Carlo Felice, linking it to piazza San Carlo and then to piazza Castello: from the last one it started the first enlargement of Turin in 1620 wanted by Carlo Emanuele I, from which the Contrada Nuova, the actual Via Roma, was the line.

Via Roma

The second stretch of the street, between piazza San Carlo and piazza Carlo Felice, was reconstructed in a rationalistic shape on a project by Marcello Piacentini (1933-1937); with it, it was opened the piazzetta C.L.N. (Comitato Liberazione Nazionale), with the fountains decorated by statues portraying the rivers Po and Dora next to the apses of the churches of San Carlo and of Santa Cristina.

The look of the first stretch of via Roma, between piazza San Carlo and piazza Castello, is due to the renewing in Baroque style realized between 1931 and 1933.