Chiesa di San Carlo Borromeo

Chiesa di San Carlo Borromeo closes the southern side of the square beside its matching neighbour, Santa Cristina. Its classical stone façade, completed in 1834, echoes Filippo Juvarra’s design next door and gives the space a balanced profile.

The church began on 1 September 1619, when Duke Carlo Emanuele I granted land to the Discalced Augustinians. Worship began by 1620, while the interior developed over several decades through Baroque altars and stucco. In 1653, Bernardino Quadri created the high altar and stucco work from designs by Amedeo di Castellamonte. The main altarpiece, painted around 1655 by Giacomo and Giovanni Andrea Casella, shows Saint Charles adoring the Shroud.

Later changes added nineteenth-century decoration by Carlo Ceppi and Rodolfo Morgari, followed by alterations during the rebuilding of Via Roma between 1935 and 1937. Look closely at the façade, where Baroque devotion, historicist design and twentieth-century urban planning meet.