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The construction of the Mole began in 1863, in the place where one of the bastions that made up the city walls once stood, demolished by order of Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 1800s.
Originally it had to be one: in fact, the synagogue had just been granted by Carlo Alberto the official freedom of worship to non-Catholic religions and the Jewish community wanted to build a temple with an adjoining school.
Antonelli's choice as architect proved unfortunate for the Jewish community, because he proposed a series of modifications that would have raised the construction to 113 meters, well beyond the original 47 meters for the dome. These changes, the lengthening of construction times and the higher costs, were unwelcome to the Jewish community which in 1869, due to lack of funds, ended the works with a temporary roof.
In 1873 an exchange was made with the city of Turin, which gave them another piece of land to build the current synagogue and took charge of the Mole to be completed, which would have been dedicated to King Vittorio Emanuele II.
Antonelli resumed the construction, with a series of changes in progress that brought the overall height to 146, 163.35 and finally 167.5 meters (with the addition of the 4 m high statue of the "winged genius" ), making it the tallest brick building in Europe and the world until May 23, 1953, when the original spire collapsed. This title then passed to another Antonellian work, the dome of the Basilica of San Gaudenzio in Novara.
Antonelli worked at the Mole until his death: that sort of rudimentary lift operated by a pulley that took the almost ninety-year-old architect to several tens of meters high to personally verify the status of the work had become legendary. Antonelli did not however see the completion of the construction: the Mole was in fact inaugurated in 1889, one year after his death, as the seat of the Museum of the Risorgimento. However, it was completed by his son Costanzo assisted until the year 1900 by the pupil of his father Crescentino Caselli, while the architect Annibale Rigotti decorated the interiors between 1905 and 1908.
The Mole was, among other things, one of the first buildings to be lit by small flames of city gas at the end of the 19th century. In 1961, after the reconstruction of the spire was completed, the lighting project was carried out by Eng. Guido Chiarelli, as part of the celebrations for the centenary of the Unification of Italy.

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B&B Dal Conte
Via degli Orti 6
10055 Condove 
Turin - Piemonte
Italy
Tel: +39 335 16 86 789
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