San Lorenzo
Rising above the Palazzo Reale in Piazza Castello
is the church of San Lorenzo, dating from the second half of the 16th
century.
The baroque dome is well known for its interwoven arches
and was designed by Guarino Guarini on the site of an old church. Guarini
was one of Europe's leading mathematicians, and he used this to good
effect in his geometrical design for San Lorenzo, which has been described
by one Guarini scholar as 'a great work of hallucinatory engineering'.
The church was built for the Theatine Order, to which
Guarini was ordained and was the original home of the Turin Shroud when
it first arrived in the city in 1578.
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