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When you are here
 The route The route the pilgrims will cover to reach the Cathedral goes through the Royal Low Gardens and the Manica Nuova of the Palazzo Reale. The access will be in viale 1° Maggio at the corner of corso Regina Margherita, with welcome and reservations verification points; the passage through the park behind the Museo di Antichità, walking along the Bastions separating the Royal High Gardens from the Low ones to follow. The pilgrims will then enter the «infernotti» of the Manica Nuova of the Palazzo Reale, come out in the Roman Theatre area and walk up to the square of the Cathedral bell tower (where there will be the «prelecture» pavillon, images and explanations preparing to the vision of the Cloth) and finally enter the Cathedral getting across the parvis. Coming out of the Cathedral on the Palazzo Chiablese side the pilgrims may go to the Penitentiary chapel, inside Palazzo Chiablese, to stop for a prayer for eucharistic worship and receive the sacrament of confession. There will be one and only entry to the route to which – like in 1998 and 2000 – it will be possibile to gain access with the reservation ticket only. It will stand on platforms and will be protected, covered and without architectural barriers; the «welcome point» for tourists and pilgrims will be in piazza Castello (in the Palazzo della Regione at the corner of via Palazzo di Città) to issue «immediate» reservations depending on availability. The route will develop in three levels inside the Cathedral in order to enable most people to see the Shroud in an optimal way. The entrance to the Royal Gardens will guarantee an orderly stream of the pilgrims’ coaches. The chosen route is the result of a close collaboration between the Shroud Exhibition Committee and the Regional Directions for the Cultural and Landscape Heritage and aims at harmonizing the curb of costs with the realisation of works to be used again as a service to the museum areas and to the city too. Moreover, this is a way to make «coexist» the pilgrimage to the Shroud with the necessities of the sites that are now and will be open in the control area: for the restoration of the Chapel by Guarini, the removal of the Galleria Sabauda and the works of the Royal Palace. Lastly, the Committee has confirmed once more the criterion of realising works the city will inherit after the Exposition. |
