The Turin that is no more on display at the City's Historical Archives

An exhibition titled Turin That Is No More opened on June 9. Curiosities, oddities and images never seen. In the halls of theHistorical Archives of the City of Turin, more than 200 pieces including photographs, documents and drawings immortalizing historical facts and extravagant events of the Turin of yesterday and today will be on display until September 29.

Among the rarest documents, Alessandro Antonelli ’s original design of the Mole’s spire will be on display for the first time, with the winged genius that surmounted the dome from 1889 until 1904, when it was felled by a hurricane and replaced with the current star. Also on view will be the 1850 daguerreotype depicting Fritz, King Carlo Felice ’s Indian elephant who lived in the gardens of the Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, or the photo of the giraffe that passed through Via Roma in 1955 (pictured below). To the Teatro Regio, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its reconstruction, the Historical Archives devotes a large section of the exhibition, from the fire that destroyed the theater on February 8, 1936 to the inaugural evening of the new Regio on April 10, 1973. Finally, a series of historical and contemporary photographs compares the past and present of dozens of places in the city.

The exhibition set up at the Historical Archives of the City of Turin(32 Barbaroux Street) can be visited from June 9 to Sept. 29, with hours Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Free admission.

For all information, you can visit the official website of the City of Turin.

The Turin that is no more on display at the City's Historical Archives

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