My dream - well one of my dreams - has always been to recreate the Battle and Siege of Turin in 1706, during the Spanish Succession War. It was actually an epic event that still is remembered in my town (i.e. Turin) and that still has a lot of details to be pointed out.
One of these is the fighting around the castle of Lucento (now inside the town itself) that represented the maximum effort the Allied forces under Prince Eugene von Savoye had to fulfill.
The Caste still exsistes even though totally remade; I had therefore to find old maps of this part of the town, put together with the historical reports of the battle and re-build the field and units that were involved in that event.
After long researches I was able at the end to prepare a map of the fields around the Castle of Lucento. But firstly I would like to point out where this Castle was located with respect of the battlefield.
So here the irst map of the Battle of Turin with in evidence the zone of the Castle of Lucento.
The French troops were around the Town, providing the siege (in the map on the top); while the Allied arrived from the west, here from the bottom.
1 Castle of Lucento
2 Farm
3 Big Farms and fields
4) Church
5) Spinning wheel building
6) Farm "La Tana"
7) French Defence
8)&9) Terrain Ramparts
10) Bridges on the River Dora
11) Countevallation against the Town of Turin
12) Circumvallation
