Civil and military architecture

Among the territorial planning interventions adopted by the Savoy government, there is also the founding of three cities from scratch, Carloforte and La Maddalena in the 18th century and Longon Sardo (later Santa Teresa Gallura) in the 19th century.

The task of designing the Carloforte plant was entrusted by King Carlo Emanuele III to the engineer Della Vallea, who was responsible for both the fortification of the island and the town and the port.

The urban layout adopted was the one already tested in Turin in the seventeenth century, in a checkerboard pattern starting from a central axis that, crossing a large square, connects the town with the sea and with the hill; in the central area, the parish church, designed most likely by another military engineer, Saverio Belgrano di Famolasco, in Sardinia since 1761, would have been located.

Belgrano is also to be attributed to the arrangement of the architectural ensemble built in the Balice space in Cagliari, including the Tridentine Seminary and the University of which, in the drawings, a theater was centrally integrated. The autograph project is kept in the Historical Archive of Turin.

Update

10/9/2023 - 15:52