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The “Tower of Saint Gregory” stood in downtown Turin since the 1300s, and was the grandest and tallest building in town for many centuries. It was demolished by Napoleon.<\/p>\n

I’m inclined to think that the tower ought to be restored — mostly for the sake of the Turinese heritage-tourism industry. It’s annoying that “heritage tourism” lacks any avant-garde. Restoring buildings to a brand-new condition when they’ve been missing from the city map for two hundred years, that would be a serious social invention.<\/p>\n

This .pdf of an urban history book about the Tower is really quite beautiful. One can’t page through it without feeling the loss of that structure. The Civic Tower had a lot of different avatars; the Turinese worked on it for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.museotorino.it\/resources\/pdf\/books\/95\/files\/assets\/common\/downloads\/publication.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

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