Some history

If you wish to know some of the B&B's history and secrets, we have carried out some research...

The B&B bears the name of the Port Susa train station right across the street.
In front of the B&B is the historic station building, built in 1856-1858 as the terminus of the train line to Novara (1853) in a rapidly changing city. The railway line connecting the Porta Susa and Porta Nuova stations was completed in 1864 and was realized on the surface with the effect of cutting the city in two. Corso Inghilterra was built in those years along the railway line and originally held the name of Viale San Solutore. The train line was then lowered in a trench between 1911 and 1926, allowing to reactivate the connection of the main avenues crossing it.
The train line was finally completely moved to an underground tunnel between 1990 and 2015, restoring the urban fabric's continuity. The new Porta Susa station of 2013 is underground with an external glass and steel gallery 300 meters long and 19 meters high, and is becoming Torino's main railway hub for urban, regional and international traffic.

The building on Corso Inghilterra 45 is a 5-floor apartment complex built in 1889. It is located in the Cit Turin neighborhood (Little Torino in the Piedmontese dialect) that was developed between the late 1800's and the first decades of the 1900's. The building originally had the ground floor and 4 floors and it reached the present configuration with the addition of the 5th floor in the years 1923-27.
The building belonged to Senator Antonio Carle who sold the apartments to different owners in 1923. The apartment where the B&B is located was purchased by Virgilio Bonino for his parents and since then it has been the home of 4 Bonino generations. The B&B was opened in 2007 by the present owner Marco.
The ground floor now hosts some shops with windows on the street, among which the renowned Restaurant Vecchia Londra.

Foundation of FIAT (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino).
The Mole Antonelliana, by the architect Alessandro Antonelli, is completed.
While the public gas lighting is extended in several streets of the center, electric lighting is installed in Piazza San Carlo.
The first Union in Italy is founded with the name “Confederazione delle Società Operaie di Torino”.
First general strike in Italy, in Torino on April 11 1889 and for a few days.
Between 1888 and 1889 the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche lived in Torino. Here he wrote the book “Ecce homo” and his madness was revealed.
Building of the OGR, the most significant industrial complex still intact in Torino, with buildings of great historic and architectural value by architects such as Pietro Fenoglio and Giacomo Mattè Trucco.
Foundation of the School of Electrotechnics, later incorporated in the Politecnico di Torino, by Galileo Ferraris (Livorno, VC 1847 - Torino 1896) inventor of the electric induction motor, that changed the world.

January 15 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
March 31 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris during the Universal Exhibition to commemorate the hudredth anniversary of the French Revolution.
May 2 - Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over what will become Eritrea.
June 8 - The Wall Street Journal is established.
November 15 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup (he was the second and last emperor of Brazil).
November 23 - The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
The japanese physician Shibasaburo Kitasato isolates the tetanus bacterium.
The neapolitan cook Raffaele Esposito dedicates to Queen Margherita the "pizza Margherita" representing the new Italian flag with the white mozzarella, the red tomato and the green basil.
The Moulin Rouge is built and opened in Paris.
Emile Berliner markets first commercial gramophone records.

April 16: Charlie Chaplin, British actor and director († 1977)
April 20: Adolf Hitler, Austrian dictator († 1945)
July 5: Jean Cocteau, French writer
October 31: Angelo Rizzoli, Italian publisher
November 2: Arnoldo Mondadori, Italian publisher
November 14: Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician

Gabriele D'Annunzio: Il Piacere
Jerome K. Jerome: Three men in a boat
Lev Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata
Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Gustav Mahler: Symphony N. 1