Boarding school cloister and dome of Turin's Consolata Shrine restored after 300 days

The Cloister of the Boarding School and the Dome of the Sanctuary of the Consolata in Turin are now visible in all their beauty after a long restoration that lasted 300 days. The CRT Foundation enabled, thanks to a 670,000-euro grant, the major restoration work that involved the walls, vaults, porch flooring, and accesses to the interior.

The president of Fondazione CRT, Giovanni Quaglia, said, “The Sanctuary of the Consolata is a sacred heritage, but also an artistic and cultural heritage of Turin and the whole territory: this is why we decided to ’give back’ to the city the Cloister of the Boarding School in its renewed look on the occasion of the festivity of the Consolata.”

Luisa Papotti, Superintendent of Fine Arts for the Metropolitan City of Turin, added, “The current appearance of the cloister follows important renovations in the first half of the 18th century, but also the reparation of the serious wounds caused by the bombing of 1943. The intervention made it possible not only to restore and restore the facades and portico to a condition of decorum, but also to rediscover and re-propose its bright 18th-century colors.”

Source: Rai News - Mole24

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Boarding school cloister and dome of Turin's Consolata Shrine restored after 300 days

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