Port Lympia

This guide to Port Lympia starts at a pale yellow barracks by the water, its cheerful clock tower hiding a harder history underneath thick, vaulted walls built to double as a prison. It traces how the King of Sardinia had convicts and galley slaves dig this harbor basin around 1750 to turn a marshy inlet into a moneymaking port for landlocked Turin. The same building later kept working as warehouse and workshop, right alongside its use as a prison.