Lingotto

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View of the former Fiat factory building (2008)
The building in 1928

Lingotto is a district of Turin , the appearance and development of which was largely determined by the Fiat group, which built an automobile plant there in 1916 . The plant is located on Via Nizza and was opened in 1923 after seven years of construction. The production facility was the largest and most advanced of its time and even had a one-kilometer test track on the roof as a circuit. The finished vehicles could be driven onto the roof immediately after production and completed test laps. Up to the 1970s, up to 80 different car models were produced. The final closure took place in 1982. After the general decline of the quarter and the steadily advancing decline of the factory premises, the population expressed the wish for the site to be revitalized. After numerous demonstrations, the authorities gave in and opened an architectural competition to redesign and modernize the site. The winner of the competition was Renzo Piano , who created a modern cultural and exhibition center with a concert hall, multiplex cinema (Paté Lingotto), five-star hotel Le Meridien (today NH Torino Lingotto Congress), shopping center and the cube for conceived the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli and at the same time preserved the external shape of the complex. The renovation and modernization work was completed in 1989.

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Web links

Commons : Lingotto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hotel NH Torino Lingotto Congress. NH Hotel Group , accessed November 25, 2019 .

Coordinates: 45 ° 1 ′ 55 "  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 55.5"  E