CDP March 2021 Theme : Mirror

Near my block there is a luxury shop selling expensive porcelain and glasswares, which we just look and never dare even to step in.

It has some round mirrors placed on the bottem side of it windows and they reflect the view of the buildings on the other side of the road.

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Location : Via Pietro Micca

CDP March Theme : Municipal Building

Palazzo Civico, current name of the ancient Palazzo di Città, is the seat of the town hall of the city of Turin. It overlooks the square which takes its name from its original name and which, before the last eighteenth-century settlement, was known by the name of Piazza delle Erbe.

A slab with the design of the symbol of Turin, a bull is embbed in the paviment at the entrance to the piazza

The current municipal building was designed by the architect Francesco Lanfranchi (1663), following the baroque designs of Emanuele Tesauro, right on the site of the previous municipal building, with a medieval layout. In 1659, Lanfranchi was commissioned to design and build a new headquarters for the city authority, right on the square then called "delle Erbe" which, a century later, Benedetto Alfieri transformed into the current Piazza Palazzo di Città. In the middle of that year, the first stone was laid by the archbishop of Turin, Giulio Cesare Bergera, in the presence of Duke Carlo Emanuele II and his mother, Madame Reale Cristina of France and in 1663 the works were finished.

Compared to today, the building was more narrow, without the elevation where the clock is displayed, and with a large coat of arms of the Savoy-Orléans, flanked by bronze lions, works that were destroyed by the Jacobins in 1799.

 
In the following century the palace was extensively remodeled by Benedetto Alfieri, who added the two wings, overlooking Via Garibaldi and Via Corte d'Appello, so that the small square behind it, called "del Butirro" was incorporated as a courtyard.  

Further modifications were made by the architects Francesco Valeriano Dellala of Beinasco, Luigi Barberis and Filippo Castelli. 

(Quote  from https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Civico_(Torino))

Location : Palazzo Di Città 

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CDP March Theme Green

Green is the color of Toret, the iconic fountain of Turin, which still can be found in some streets and piazza in the town, and it is my choice for the theme day.
Toret is a noun of the Piedmontese language which literally means toretto, ie small bull. In a translated sense the word is commonly used to designate the typical public fountain of the city of Turin, of which it is a famous feature of urban furniture.
 

The fountain is made of cast iron, with a parallelepipedal vertical development closed by a hemicylindrical vault; It is painted with a particular bottle-green color which is also, in turn, iconic. The dispensing cinnamon placed on the front consists of a small bull's head from which water gushes through the mouth. The bull's head recalls the animal symbol of the city of Turin: the rampant bull also present on the official insignia. Complete the installation, on the ground, a hemicircular drainage grate often equipped with a central basin useful for the drinking of pets.

The citizens of Turin have developed a very acute sense of affection towards the toret, which they consider to be a symbolic object of their city, inextricably linked not only to the satisfaction of food necessities in moments of emergency or in sports practice, but also often in childhood memories and sentimental events.

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CDP March Theme Play

CPD March theme is Play, so let's play!

Occasionally some events organised in Turin without much notice, one of these was having the traditional games layout on the small streets and let the modern kids have a feel of how their parents. grandparents used to have fun.

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Not Really BW Photo CDP March Theme

Is CDP theme day again and March theme is "Black and White in Color".

I have chosen these photo that I have taken last year of a mural with pretty interesting messages.

It is painted in black and white with theme seems to be a modernised Dante's inferno....

The last photo I have included a tiny piece of color....which I think was added onto the mural by someone else.

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People on the Street - Via Langrang's Walk

Via Langrang, one of the streets which we often go for a walk, since after it was converted to sole predestrian walk, it has became even more enjoyable to stroll through, watching the shop windows and all kind of people going up and down....

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