Cottolengo – Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza
Aurora
- Location: Cottolengo – Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza
- Address: Via San Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo 14
- Phone#: 011 5225111
- Opening: Guided tours by arrangement. For further information please visit the web site or contact the information office.
- Transportation: Stops 198 and 197 Ospedale Cottolengo: lines 3, 16CS, 16CD, 52, 1085.
The Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza is a huge care-giving and hospital centre covering three blocks. It was founded in 1828 by canon Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo (1786-1842) to care for the orphans, the poor and the sick and moved to its current location, the pre-industrial district then called Valdocco, in 1832. The Turin institute, with a swan-neck facade and statue of the founder, is the central headquarter managing approximately fifteen branches scattered all over the world.
