Torino’s Porta Nuova station dates back to 1861, when works first started on the project by engineer Alessandro Mazzucchetti. Its design combined the strictly functional with the representative and monumental characteristics typical of the buildings facing onto piazza Carlo Felice.

On the occasion of the 1911 Universal Exposition, some major enlargement works were carried out to make the station better suited to receive its numerous visitors.

The railway station Porta Nuova is the biggest station in town with 20 platforms.
It has been renewed internally in 2006 for the Winter Olympic Games but it's still the original building.