Piazza Carlo Felice is a city square in Turin, Italy

 Никола Бенин

In 1850 the enlargement plan of the capital was launched. The city was structured into 3 levels for the areas outside Porta Nuova, Valdocco and Vanchiglia. In the first of these levels the Municipality ran operations, from the selling of the lands to the realization of the development buildings, on the indications by the architect Carlo Promis, who developed everything, from the drawing of the route of a road to the architectonic decoration.

The core of the intervention is Piazza Carlo Felice. It is characterized by the homogeneous treatment of the façade of the porticoed buildings, finished with an attic of semi-pillars. Those façades melt themselves to the north to the head of the Contrada of Porta Nuova (later – via Roma), designed in a semi-octagonal shape, while to the south they turn along the Strada del Re (later Corso Vittorio Emanuele II).