...Per anni avevo visto Torino come una città nemica: la capitale da cui partivano i reggimenti piemontesi o francesi che per due secoli avevano tentato di annientare il mio popolo: la città di Madama Cristina, di Vittorio Amedeo II dell'"Albergo di Virtù" che in piazza Carlina "ospitava" i bambini valdesi rapiti alle loro famiglie... (da "Torino primo amore" di Giorgio Bouchard). Il palazzo sede dal 1682 al 1746 dell'Albergo di Virtù fu istituito per fornire un'educazione cattolica ai bambini sottratti alle famiglie valdesi....For many years I saw Torino like an enemy city, the capital from which, for two centuries, the Piedmontese or French regiments were leaving for trying to destroy my people: the city of Madam Cristina, Vittorio Amedeo and the Hotel of virtue, which in Carlina square "gave hospitality of" Waldesian childrens carried away from their families...(Torino primo amore, by Giorgio Bouchard).
Piazza Carlina (Piazza Carlo Emanuele II) <-map
Thanks for stopping by and comments: Laure Keller, Don Nick, Kris McCracken, Catherine, Louis La Vache.
3 commenti:
Beautiful imagery here, thanks very much for sharing. The next time I am in Turino, I HAVE to leave the train station!
Your pictures Livio are beautiful, you know to point up the beauty of buildings, that we are used to see in our cities and that we don't even notice anymore! These buildings are in fact witnesses of people's life.
The text you write seems very interesting too. Can you explain us what do you mean by" rapiti"? A kind of Kidnaping? It doesn't seem so "pleasant". Was it a hard institution very strict with government's will to mould new little citizens?
A very fine series of photos here!
It is Flag Day in the U.S. today.
"Louis la Vache"
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