Panorama Piazza Carlo Alberto

Piazza Carlo Alberto is one of the historic pedestrianized squares in the center of Turin, located on the back of Palazzo Carignano. 
It is delimited by the streets: Cesare Battisti, Principe Amedeo and Carlo Alberto.

 On the south side of the square stands the eighteenth-century Palazzo Campana, the current university headquarters of the Mathematics department. During the whole period of fascism, it was the seat of the provincial federation of the National Fascist Party; the Duce on official visits to the city overlooked the small balcony on the side of the square.

On the opposite side of Palazzo Carignano and the equestrian monument of Carlo Alberto, stands the sumptuous building which now houses the National Library of Turin.

In the building on the corner of the square and via Carlo Alberto, on the side towards via Po, he lived between 1888 and 1889, in a room on the third floor, Friedrich Nietzsche, where he wrote his works The Antichrist, Il twilight of the idols and Ecce Homo: a plaque affixed by the Municipality remembers his stay in the city.

Location : Piazza Carlo Alberto