Via Garibaldi is a pedestrian street, among the main ones in the historic center of Turin, which connects Piazza Castello with Piazza Statuto and represents one of the oldest city streets, as well as one of the main axes of the Iulia Augusta Taurinorum, up to Via della Consolata. Under Vittorio Amedeo II it was extended to the current Corso Valdocco and in the nineteenth century it was finally connected to Piazza Statuto via the last stretch equipped with buildings with porticoes. Always the main street of the city, due to its length, until 1882 it was known to the people of Turin as Contrà Dòira Gròssa (in Italian "Contrada di Dora Grossa"). Surrounded by eighteenth-century buildings, it is considered, with its 963 meters of length and known as "decumanus maximus", the second longest European pedestrian street, after rue Sainte-Catherine in Bordeaux.
The street acts as an ideal "watershed" between the streets that cross it, so streets on the same axis have different names on the north side compared to the south side and the respective house numbers start from the intersection with via Garibaldi.
location: Via Garibaldi
