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In the Palazzo Cisterna Library the steps of the historical evolution of the Province as a territorial being can be easily documented. An exibition set up in 2008, "Novus Ordo", rich in materials, exposed paintings, maps and journals, books and mannuscripts, posters, edicts, proclamations and geographic sheets in order to tell by original historical documents how the Savoy state was well structured and organized much before the unification of Italy.
Vittorio Amedeo III, with a reform known as "Public Regulation" from the sixth of June 1775, estabilished new sorts for the public administrations of the districts, which was attributed to the council of every city under the dependence of the Intendant of the province, as it was ordered in the general constitutions from 1770. Vittorio Emanule I then, with the Royal Licenses from the tenth of November 1818, contemplated a territorial organisation inspired by the Napoleonic Empire one.
Without any dubt the most important legislative provision was the Rattazzi decree, issuedthe 23th of October 1859, which reorganized the administrative structure of the Savoy state on the French model, dividing it into provinces, and other kinds of districts. On the basis of this the peripherical organization of the Italian Reign would have been structured, and in this law the Provinces were legally born.
The first provincial elections were announced the 15th of January 1860, and the 20th of March 1865 a new law reordered the subject, uniting all the past provides: the "comunal and provincial administration Act".
The steps of this secular story are signed both by the unic text from 1915 (Giolitti government) who gathered in a single document the evolution of the Italian administrative system, whict detached from the French Napoleonic model, and, after all the various war vicissitudes, by the laws of the '90s of the last century, which exalted the themes of decentralization and subsidiarity.
In the end the Delrio law of the third of April 2014 signs the overcoming of the Provinces, transformed into second level entities and, for ten of them, and the Turin Province is included, the transformation into metropolitan Cities.