Torino Porta Nuova
Torino Porta Nuova is Italy’s third-largest station, with around 192 thousand transit presences per day, 70 million per year. Located in corso Vittorio Emanuele II, it occupies a strategic position in the urban fabric and is the city’s major hub for public transport lines; it will also be the intersection point for the metro line currently under construction. It hosts around 350 trains per day.
History
Torino’s Porta Nuova station dates back to
1861, when works first started on the project by engineer
Alessandro Mazzucchetti. Its design combined the strictly functional with the representative and monumental characteristics typical of the buildings facing onto piazza Carlo Felice.
On the occasion of the
1911 Universal Exposition, some major enlargement works were carried out to make the station better suited to receive its numerous visitors.
In
1940 some
significant changes were made to provide better premises for the district and postal offices, and a large building was built on via Nizza. The entrance hall was given a new reinforced concrete roof, and on the main front a second glazed facade was installed inside. In the course of successive alterations, the two galleries that flank the wings of the two buildings were built.
The head
gallery was built in
1951: 30 metres wide and 150 metres long, with a load-bearing structure consisting of 33 trestle trusses with a knee-shaped profile, placed crosswise.
Following the alterations made in the 1950s, the entrance hall of the station is accessed from the
five entrances in the original facade, after which there are two opposite and parallel pedestrian routes leading to the tracks front; other transversal passages open onto
via Nizza and
via Sacchi.
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