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Good morning everyone.
We have already spoken on other occasions of our city, but today we want to dedicate our post to the symbol of Turin, the Mole Antonelliana. It’s situated in the center of Turin and it’s named after the architect who built it, Alessandro Antonelli. It’s 167 m high and it’s the tallest building in the city, but it has been, for a long time, even the tallest brick structure in Europe. Originally it was to be a synagogue, but as the costs were too high for the building, it was sold by the Jewish community to Turin, which dedicated the monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II.
Good morning everyone.We have already spoken on other occasions of our city, but today we want to dedicate our post to the symbol of Turin, the Mole Antonelliana. It’s situated in the center of Turin and it’s named after the architect who built it, Alessandro Antonelli. It’s 167 m high and it’s the tallest building in the city, but it has been, for a long time, even the tallest brick structure in Europe. Originally it was to be a synagogue, but as the costs were too high for the building, it was sold by the Jewish community to Turin, which dedicated the monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II.
Antonelli worked until his death at the Mole, but he didn’t see the completion of the building which was completed by his son Constantius with Creswell Caselli, a pupil of his father and with architect Annibale Rigotti who decorated the interior.
