Description
The Church of Santa Cristina closes the south side of Piazza San Carlo in Turin, toward Porta Nuova: it is the twin of the Church of San Carlo, and together they frame the entrance of Via Roma into the city's Baroque "drawing room."
The thing to see is the façade by Filippo Juvarra, his first work in Turin, built between 1715 and 1718: two orders, a curved central section with a large oval window, and statues of female saints and virtues.
Inside, the single nave has a vault showing the martyrdom of Saint Christina in nine panels, among stucco work and angels, and an organ from 1748.
It was commissioned by Christine of France, regent of Piedmont, who was buried here. Under Napoleon it became the commodity exchange, and after the Restoration people called it the "servants' church": its Sunday Mass was crowded with the staff of the grand houses nearby.
The thing to see is the façade by Filippo Juvarra, his first work in Turin, built between 1715 and 1718: two orders, a curved central section with a large oval window, and statues of female saints and virtues.
Inside, the single nave has a vault showing the martyrdom of Saint Christina in nine panels, among stucco work and angels, and an organ from 1748.
It was commissioned by Christine of France, regent of Piedmont, who was buried here. Under Napoleon it became the commodity exchange, and after the Restoration people called it the "servants' church": its Sunday Mass was crowded with the staff of the grand houses nearby.