Description
Piazza Carlo Felice is the large garden square in front of Porta Nuova station in Turin, where Via Roma meets Corso Vittorio Emanuele II: for anyone arriving by train it is the first glimpse of the city, framed by 19th-century arcades and trees.
In the middle lies the Giardino Sambuy, designed in 1861 by Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps: rolling lawns, diagonal porphyry paths, rare plants and monumental trees, statues of Edmondo De Amicis and Massimo d'Azeglio, a flower clock donated by Geneva, and a fountain marking the arrival of the aqueduct in 1859.
All around run the arcades by Promis, Frizzi and Leoni, which close in a semicircular exedra toward Via Roma. The square is also home to the Hotel Roma, where Cesare Pavese took his own life in 1950.
In the middle lies the Giardino Sambuy, designed in 1861 by Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps: rolling lawns, diagonal porphyry paths, rare plants and monumental trees, statues of Edmondo De Amicis and Massimo d'Azeglio, a flower clock donated by Geneva, and a fountain marking the arrival of the aqueduct in 1859.
All around run the arcades by Promis, Frizzi and Leoni, which close in a semicircular exedra toward Via Roma. The square is also home to the Hotel Roma, where Cesare Pavese took his own life in 1950.