Turin

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Turin is a fascinating and mysterious city, full of history, art and tradition. It is a city in constant transformation, strong cultural resources and materials inherited from the celebrated past, looks ahead in search of an ever more competitive modernity.

Turin is a roman city and a baroque center, a place of delights and the first capital of Italy, a wealthy industrial state and a center of art and culture is a city full of charm with many vantage points and food and wine tours.
 

Historical Center

The old town, full of arcades, large pedestrian areas and valuable architectural structures and elegant squares, gives the city an impression of nobility which does not conflict with the modern residential areas. Piazza Castello is the symbol of the baroque and the legacy of Savoy in Turin (do not miss a visit to the Palazzo Reale and Palazzo Madama).

Museums and theaters

Turin Museums are numerous: the most famous Egyptian Museum, the largest in the world after Cairo, the Film Museum, housed in the Mole Antonelliana, the Automobile Museum, the Galleria Sabauda, the Museum of Risorgimento and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna (GAM). Turin is the artistic and cultural center of Piedmont, among the finest theaters remember the Teatro Regio and Teatro Carignano, a small treasure chest of art.
 

Churches

The center of Turin is a cradle of spirituality among the many churches remind the renaissance Cathedral with its adjacent Chapel of the Shroud, a masterpiece of the architect Guarino Guarini, who also designed the neighboring San Lorenzo, the Santuario della Consolata, the patron saint of the city, the aroque church of the Holy Martyrs, the church of S. Philip Neri with the venerated remains of Blessed Sebastian Valfrè, the Basilica of Maria Ausiliatrice with the tomb of Don Bosco, and on a hill, the basilica of Superga, a masterpiece of Juvarra.

Shopping

The main shopping streets are Via Roma, Via Garibaldi, Via Po and Via Lagrange, where alternate boutiques, jewelery shops and cafes.

Eating and drinking

The Quadrilatero Romano, the part of the historic center of Turin where is located the Hotel Dogana Vecchia, is very rich of restaurants and pubs. Among the historic cafes and chocolate shops, boasting centuries of Turin, we mention the cafes in Piazza San Carlo (Caffè San Carlo and Caffè Torino), Mulassano and Baratti & Milano in Piazza Castello, the Bicerin in Piazza della Consolata and Fiorio in Via Po.

 

For further information, please visit the official website of Turin Tourism: www.turismotorino.org

 

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