The “Città Leopolda” (Leopoldine City) was the new city quarter devised outside the former “Porta del Casone”, between the future “Piazza Cavour” and the sea. The process of division into lots was assigned to Luigi de Cambray Digny, a Florentine architect who became director of the Grand Duchy public works.
In the heart of the “Città Leopolda” Luigi de Cambray Digny built “Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo” (St. Peter and St. Paul's Church), in the square with the same name, at the eastern end of what is now “Via dell'Indipendenza”.The works started in 1829 and the building was surely completed before 1835, when it was used as a shelter during the cholera epidemic of the same year.
See also: Palazzo Rosso - Palazzo Santoponte - Piazza Cavour
Via Maggi - Palazzo Uzielli
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