What can we see having a walk on San Salvario streets...let's have a look!
Main gate of the city in ancient times, today we find here Porta Nuova railway station.
It has been built on 1865 on Mazzucchetti & Ceppi's project. During the previous two Centuries Porta Nuova was actually a city gate: it has been built on 1620 on Amedeo di Castellamonte's project in oredr to celebrate Victor Amadeus I and Christine Marie of France marriage. All around the city gate there was only countryside and this condition lingered the half of the XIX Century.
Than Napoleon arrived and decided to destroy all the city walls and also Porta Nuova city gate. A few years later this area had gas light, the first Italian case, even if Italy still didn't exist!
In front of Porta Nuova, after Carlo Felice square via Roma takes place, direction Castello square, the very hearth of the city.
In San Salvario there are also different confession churches: on 23, Corso Vittorio you can find Valdese church and just a block after, the San Giovanni Evangelista church. The first was built in 1853, immediately after Charles Albert of Sardinina recognized the right to profess their own confession (1848) to Waldenses. It's a neo-gothic building, with a big rose window on the main side, high pinnacles and it has a nave and two aisles by the anglican style.
The second church is instead neo-romanic building and since 1998 it hosts the Philippine Catholic community and they celebrate in both tagalog and english language.
Just on the first way you cross entering the borg, via San Pio V, on the right side we find the big Sinagoga, jewish confession. In 1848 Charles Albert of Sardinia recognized also to the jewish the right to profess their religion and for this reason in1884 the Synagogue was inaugurated. This building has inside two more small Synagogues on a matrioska model.
Many other curiosities are hidden in San Salvario's ways but we're gonna speak about it the next time!
