House of Victory

The Casa della Vittoria is a historic building in Turin, considered one of the most interesting examples of a neo-Gothic civil residence in the Piedmontese capital.

Included in the Cit Turin district, the Casa della Vittoria is at the center of an area of great architectural interest which can count a high density of examples of Art Nouveau (Italian Liberty) and Neo-Gothic architecture, including the neighboring San Donato.

Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the residential area Cit Turin was the epicenter of an intense building activity mainly oriented towards the Liberty style.

Parallel to the exasperated naturalism of this style, the Neo-Gothic current developed and, in addition to the church of Gesù Nazareno, the examples of this contamination in the neighborhood are the home of the same cavalier Carrera di Magnano (Biella) and the Casa della Vittoria.

Commissioned in 1918 by the engineer Carrera Gottardo Gussoni to celebrate the victory of the First World War, it was completed in 1920, representing a sign of recovery in the post-war construction sector.

To confirm this statement is the plaque placed on the facade.

The building is spread over five floors and stands on the axis of Corso Francia, in the elegant residential district of Turin.

It is in an eclectic style with evident incursions of French-Gothic neo-Gothic found in structural details such as the portal and the entrance hall, the balustrades of balconies and internal stairs and the pronounced angular bow-window with mullioned windows and semicircular three-light windows that culminates with a crenellated turret.

The interiors are still from the period.

Map: House of Victory