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THE BORGO DORA
Located at North of the town, outside walls, the Borgo Dora arose in the Middle Age along a thick series of channels, leaving from a series of dams on the Dora Riparia, and became an actual department for workshops and productive plants.
Firstly, wheat mills, then iron jacks, canopy tracks, timber-mills were installed. Later on, other industries were created, such as military factories for weapons and gunpowder and, at the end of the Seventeenth Century, the silk throwing plants that, one century later, made the fortune of the town. Due to these reasons, Turin found in the Dora its natural growth axis and up to the Nineteen Century extended from east to west, mainly.
Bird's eye view of Borgo Dora from the Theatrum Sabaudiae (1682)
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