{"id":968,"date":"2014-04-05T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2014-11-10T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T11:27:42","slug":"turin-arcades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/turin-city\/what-to-see-in-turin\/turin-arcades\/","title":{"rendered":"The legendary Turin arcades"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Visiting Turin you can’t miss a long walk under the legendary\u00a0monumental Turin arcades. The center of Turin has 18 kilometers of arcades , of which 12.5 are also interconnected: it is the city with the largest pedestrian area in Europe.<\/p>\n

It seems that King Vittorio Emanuele I of Savoy ordered to build 2 kilometers of arcades from the Royal Palace to Piazza Vittorio Veneto, so that the real could walk down to the Po river without getting wet, even when it rained.<\/p>\n

Today, the arcades of Turin are paved with different styles, from the gray stone of the Via Po. to the\u00a0marble of the Via Roma and they are a practice shed for all the shop windows underlying; an urban project, architectural, aesthetic and socio-economic of unique beauty.<\/p>\n

Walking under the arcades it is easy to be enchanted by the beauty of some paved, coffered ceilings, some rows of columns, and just a door opened, the gaze slips in the halls of historic buildings, some of which may simply leave you breathless.<\/p>\n\n

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