Turin has never needed much encouragement to show off its (sometimes quirky) beauty, but Piazza Solferino gives the city unusually good material. At one end of the square stands the Fontana Angelica, a broad stone basin crowded with four large bronze figures, children, fruit, animals and zodiac signs, all arranged around water that moves from one group to the next.
The fountain began working again this summer after two years out of service, a good timing for a monument that has spent nearly a century acquiring a second life: it was built as a memorial to a man’s parents, yet today it is one of the principal landmarks of the most “magical” city in Italy.
