Sporting a stunning façade, Turin’s largest cinema, with 1,336 seats in its single auditorium, Cinema Lux, which was recently transformed into a multiplex, is located in historic downtown, in the Galleria San Federico next to Piazza San Carlo.
This historical movie theatre was inaugurated almost 80 years ago with the name Cinema Rex (later renamed Dux, and ultimately, after World War II, it took on its final name, Lux).
At the time, this cinema was considered Torino’s “most luxurious and state-of-the-art” movie theatre, with its marble floors and large staircases; it was built from the architectural project by Giovanni Canova and Eugène Corte, an artist from Geneva and student of Jean Luis Pascal’s, who had assisted Charles Garnier in designing the Paris Opera.