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On the opposite side of the square is the Galleria Umberto I:
on six lunettes of the vault of the building, artist Mauro
Chesso created the painting Negozi e mercati, a tribute to
the city market of Porta Palazzo.
Next to the Gallery, in via Pietro Egidi 3, the artist group
Truly Design painted the mural Cùltus, an anamorphic
composition of bright colors. The work is part of the
TOward2030. What are you doing? project, promoted by the
City of Turin and Lavazza to transform the 17 Sustainable
Development Goals set by the United Nations into street art,
and is dedicated to defeating world hunger.
Another mural of the initiative is located on the west side of
piazza della Repubblica, in via Cardinale Cagliero, where
there is an enormous whale made out of waste: it is La vita
sott’acqua, painted by the artist Mr Fijodor and focused on
safeguarding oceans.
Continuing along via Cagliero, which becomes via Lanino,
you enter the maze of narrow streets in the Borgo Dora
area, where there are dozens of murals. Looking up at via
Mameli 18 you can see Chorus, a dance of women in
traditional clothes painted by artist Lisa Lazzaretti on the
occasion of the Picturin festival in 2011.
Entering the heart of the district, piazza Borgo Dora, we find
instead the Mosaico a frammentazione e ricomposizione
ceramica per la Città di Torino, made in 1999 by students of
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