This street preserves its original design of 1775 when architect Gian Giacomo Plantery decided to create a street departing from Juvarra’s facade of Palazzo Madama in the direction of Porta Susina. At that time – the man who unified Italy was yet to be born – the street was called via Dora Grossa and De Amicis said of it: “As one walks along via Dora Grossa from Piazza Castello in fine weather, one’s gaze is drawn to the white curtain of the Alps which borders the street on the west and not to the sequence of facades which cut out a long rectangle of sky between the two rows of uniform houses”. In 1978 via Garibaldi was made a pedestrian area, and the 1,046 meters of street are today a favorite shopping destination for the Turinese (who tend to crowd them especially on Saturday afternoons).
Via Garibaldi intersects the Municipio, via della Consolata (which leads to the chiesa della Consolata), the chiesa dei Santi Martiri and the chiesa della Misericordia, the Ancient Cloisters, and numerous other places of interest.
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