In the Middle Of The Field

It looks like a big grass field, perhaps in the outskirt of the town, but it is actually in the middle of a few heavy traffic streets in the center of the Turin.

It is located just after Piazza Statuto, surrounded by Corso Inghriterra, Corso Principe Oddone, via Cibraio, Corso Francia.

It is mainly used by dog owners, I guess, to walk their dogs, just hope that the owners at least pick up their dog's poos and not leaving them to fertilize the field.

Location : Piazza Statuto

Pride Torino 2017

Pride Torino was held on the 17 of June, due to work and some other inconveniences, only now I have the time to arrange the photo taken on that day.

The parade started at piazza Carlo felice in front of the train station, Porta Nuova and joined by the trucks at piazza Castello and together they ended the march in piazza Statuto.

More that 50 thousand people attended the parade and it went off smoothly .

Tunnel Of Tree

This is Corso San Martino, looking towards the direction of the station Porta Susa where a modern sculpture is elected in the center of the roundabout. 

In summer, the trees on both side of the road formed an arch covering the road, looks like a tunnel passing from piazza Statuto to the station.

Obelisk At Piazza Statuto

Already in the Roman era this western part of the city, where the sun sets and darkness begins, was considered a poor area. For this reason, beyond the Porta Segusina, more precisely towards the slope that currently leads to merge with Corso Regina Margherita, convicted were crucifixed and deads were buried. This area was named precisely vallis occisorum (hence the name of the Valdocco area) and a vast necropolis took place which included the present area of ​​Corso Francia up to current via Cibrario and over Prince Eugene.

In 1864, the square was the scene of bloody clashes of the riots for the transfer of the capital.These historical precedents contributed to the belief that the square had something evil, until they become, as part of the legends of magical Turin, the vertex of the triangle of black magic (the others would be London and San Francisco). To be precise, it is believed that the summit of the triangle falls at the point indicated by a small obelisk with an astrolabe on top, located in the border of the small garden in front of the monument of the railway tunnel of Frejus.  

Actually this obelisk was erected in 1808 on a geodetic point, in memory of an old trigonometric calculation of 1760 on the length of a portion of the earth's meridian (the Gradus Taurinensis), performed along with other geographic points in Piedmont municipalities, in Rivoli (in which there is an twin obelisk ), in Andrate and Mondovi, by the famous Piedmontese mathematical geophysicist  Giovanni Battista Beccaria (the obelisk in fact, is also called "spire Beccaria"). To the latter it was also called the small stretch of the course (which was also the shortest course of Turin, 100 m, whose primacy then went over Ciro Menotti, just 60 m away) running from the obelisk to the garden Corso Principe Eugenio.Finally, at the center of the square near the fountain of Frejus, there is access leading to the sewer system here has its main hub. This factor also favored the emergence of legends and beliefs who want the Square as the center of negative magic or even the point of entry of one of the three "Alchemical Caves" that would be present in the city.There are organized tours that include the square as one of the main stages.

Shadows Under the Arcade

When the morning sun shines through the pillars, it casts on the ground the shadows of life under the arcade.....

A morning walking through the arcade at piazza Statuto

Moth

Saw this beautiful moth among the flowers at piazza Statuto......however later a short distance away, while walking back home, saw one looked exactly the same lying dead on a stone....

Sunflowers In Piazza

A 'field' of sunflowers at the end of piazza Statuto! So big and so bright they are, I think is a good idea to plant them in the piazza, they are easy to plant, really beautiful....and so summer!

Three Indians

What is their story....?

Three indians sitting on the bench in the garden at piazza Statuto.

Shadow And Light : Arcade Of Piazza Statuto

Beside providing shelter when it rains, the various arcades all over Turin center also provide a rather intriguing view when the sunlight shines through....

Heavy Clouds Over The Town

Last week the weather was quite a temperamental one, clear sky in the day and in the evening, huge, heavy clouds would just rush in and cover up the sky, and then came the rain....

 Heavy clouds covering up the sky above Piazza Statuto.

Along Via Garibaldi, the heavy, dense clouds were rushing in and covered up the clear sky.

Snowing Day Piazza Statuto

Was snowing quite heavily that morning when I was passing by the piazza, the transformation of the piazza over the night by the snow was quite amazing....