Travel to Italy

Palazzo Cavour

Camillo Benso Count of Cavour was born and died in this place. The building is in baroque style and was built in 1729 to a plan by Gian Giacomo Plantery. It is a true sadness that it is not open to the visitors, as the hall with sailing vaults and lunettes and the two internal courtyards, linked on an axis, are worthy of admiration.

Biblioteca civica centrale

The central city library is the most popular one among the young ones , it must be because it has a large collection of books, and it does not look like a traditional library where talking is not allowed. The library has definitively been set out in this building in 1960. Ever since the 19th c. the publisher Giuseppe Pomba had proposed the establishment of a public library on the Anglo-Saxon model for the use, mainly, of manual workers and offering general types of books.

Della Misericordia San Giovanni Decollato

This is a seventeenth century church with a rather austere design in a Greek cross style. This is where those condemned to death were led before being executed on the scaffold. At the foot of the Crucifix are ropes, nooses, cords, lanterns and goblets which are a testimony to this sad ceremony. S. Guiseppe Cafasso worked in this holy building for the moral comfort of those who were condemned. The Mass of the ancient rite in Latin and Gregorian chanting is held in the church.

Piazza Vittorio Veneto

The square is located at the end of Via Po, it has similar-looking palazzi on three sides of the piazza and the fourth looks onto the river Po. The square was designed and built between 1825 and 1830 where the 17th century Porta di Po by Guarini once stood. The square stands out for one main reason: it is one of the largest European 'terra battuta' squares. Although the buildings seem to be on the same level but this is not actually the case the road actually descends down to the river.