Visit
the town of TURIN…Torino
Fascinating, Interesting,
Admirable, Temptress.!
Visit
town of Turin, Address of the
Tourism office of Turin, the
passcard to visit Turin, City
Sightseeing Torino
museum
of Holy Shroud, the
market of Turin, decorations
in the streets for Christmas,
Eataly:
all the gastronomy Italian, the
Royal Residence of Veneria Reale,
some
infos and tariffs of the tunnels of Mont Blanc, tariffs
of the tunnel of Frejus, situation
of Turin
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here to see a diaporama
 Routes
with the meeting of the first capital of Italy
Why a city as Turin contain
does treasures as many? Why a as rich inheritance for this city of Piemont
as the Alps dominate and crown their immaculate mounts. Quite simply
because Turin was capital in turn Kingdom of Savoy,
capital of Italy and an important industrial pole. A city which since
its foundation by the  Romans,
does not cease moving to embellish itself, to innovate. A city attaching
by its multiple facets. Turin a such courtesan plays of her atours and
its assets to allure.
A
city to be unquestionably discovered and which with the advantage of
easily being able to visit itself on foot. We could retain the energetic
word to speak about this accessible city,
which knew to place at the  disposal
of each tourist the means of making knowledge with its history by the
means of a passcard valid from 2 to 7 days and making it possible to
discover Turin in an economic and practical way. Thanks to this sesame,
museums, exposures, castles and other monuments will open their doors
to you. You will obtain exemptions from payment or cheap rates that
we invite you to discover in our heading “ to know” at the
end of the text (or while clicking on the link).
 We
thus decide to go up time and we return to the medieval borough founded
by Auguste. We
are then in the center of Turin. Contrast amusing between this archaeological
zone and its district recently and magnificiently rehabilitated. The
famous market of Turin is precisely with some steps from there,
Porta Palazzo. The largest market of
Europe, 5ha with open sky, where produced of Piemont interfere themselves
with the products with Africa and Asia. A mixture of scents which give
to this market a savor of the end of the world. It should be noted
that the market of Turin is open every morning and saturdays all the
day. Not far, we advise you to make a small visit with the church Della
Consolata where you will be able to see a very particular collection
of ex-voto and which deserves really
the glance. Just opposite, one of the famous coffees inhabitant of Turin
Albicerin, going  back
to 1763, where you will be able to drink celebrates it drink inhabitant
of Turin carried out containing coffee, chocolate and cream… hum…
a treat. (avoid the schedules of exit of the mass, the coffee is very
small and there is often multitude!). After that you will strongly feel
attack to continue your visit towards Palazzo Reale by taking the direction
of Duomo di San Giovanni which contains Holy
Shroud. We advise you besides the visit of the museum of St
Shroud which is in the crypt  of
the church of the same name and which tells the various research undertaken
since XVIeme century. Impassioning. A little far from the historical
center, the museum of St Shroud, will help you with better including
this Holy Relic and all research which is referred to it. Its visit
is purely enthralling. After a history by video which is followed such,
an police investigation, with enigmas and bounces, you will visit
the church built into 1732 which preserves a copy in fabric of 4,10
m length flax, by 1,40m of width and which would have been used to wrap
the  body
of Christ after her Deposition. Then the museum reveals you stage by
stage the advance of this research and the history of this shroud through
time. One shows there the first photographs of 1898 then 1931, those
which revealed for the first time the negative one and the positive
one. It is told that the photo hobbyist of the time, fell to the shift
in front of what was revealed under its eyes. You will see there also
the trunk of 1578 which a long time, protected this invaluable treasure
from flax and cotton, just as of many drawings the representative at
the time of religious holidays. Research with carbon-14 proved that
the origin of St Shroud was well Palestine, on
the other hand the date seems to pose more problems because research
of the
time was not made starting from the fabrics reality. Indeed, during
long years, the relic was presented to faithful by the priests who held
it with end of arm. With time one realized that the hands, stains, sweats,
etc. damaged the fabric enormously. One then decided to sew a new piece
of fabric there on the top which would be used to seize Holy Shroud
at the time of the representations. It is this piece of fabric which
was used for the expertises from where a dating more recent than envisaged.
To have a reliable expertise,
it would be necessary to take a piece of fabric in full heart of Holy
 Shroud
and that, nobody wants it. The relic passed from hands in hands and
country in country. The writings of the various times make of them all
mentions, which facilitated the reconstitution of its course of Jerusalem
with Edesse, while passing by Constantinople then Cyprus and Athens
until its arrival to France, in Lirey in a rich person family of the
name of Charny and its sale later, with the family of Savoy in 1453.
It remained then a long time in Chambéry then was transferred
to Turin in 1578. The questions will be hustled then in your head, but
you will be happy to be come and this moment, believe will remain to
us engraved forever in your memory. Web site of the museum of Holy Shroud
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thus arrive on the place of Palazzo Reale, where the palate will jump
you forcing to the eyes, but it east can be Piazza Castello very with
dimensioned, which would steal almost the high-speed motorboat to him
because it is encircled by beautiful buildings showing thus that Turin
is also the capital of the Baroque. Dominating the place, the Madam
Palate with the characteristic to have kept the vestiges of the castle
of the Middle Ages, contrasts of most astonishing but the unit is carried
out in order to make the building harmonious, a
beautiful challenge for the time and very a great success.
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 While
continuing towards Piazza San Carlo you will be able to let yourselves
try by a coffee or an icecream, and benefit from it to enter one of
the old coffees of the city, Turin being par excellence, the city of
the historical coffees.
You will then make a dive
in the XIXeme century. Gildings, paintings, stuccos, will charm you.
 Take
seat in one of these places which are a whole history and where characters
such as Dumas or Nietzche took seat. But also Ava Gardner, James Stewart
or Brigitte Bardot to quote only them. Places become almost mythical
today. And it east can be because dreamers, around a coffee, and thinking
of beautiful Ava, you will then let yourselves guide towards the national
museum of the cinema in the middle of a building inhabitant of Turin,
become emblem of the city, we want to speak about the  Antonelliana
Mole: 167,5m top, a panoramic elevator almost leading you to the sky
and offering to you a sight to 360º on the city, the Alps and the
hills. There the museum of the cinema found a place and a framework
out of the commun run, moreover the concept is interesting, the ludic
visit, one is not bored only one moment. It also should be specified
that each year, in November, a festival of film is organized in Turin.
The city becomes then, for a few days, capital of the cinema.
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 Somewhat
full, we would let ourselves well try by a new coffee or to change a
good chocolate. No sin of greediness to see it inside, only pleasure
of reinstalling itself inside an elegant coffee inhabitant of Turin,
while waiting for that the night takes
seat and that Turin shows us another image, that of a city which in
each end of the year, of November to semi January,  becomes
magic while getting dressed with lights somewhat surprising. Indeed
Turin is also capital Contemporary art and for this reason receives
each year of works different exposed in the streets from the
city: astonishing, poetic, or diverting, these works of a great
originality are as jewels whose Turin would be dress and who make this
period of the year one almost ideal moment to benefit from the city
by combining the illuminations, the
festival of the cinema and shopping right before Christmas for example…
Turin is a city which offers
opportunities so much that it should well be devoted to it 5 days if
one wants to see the maximum of thing and we speak only about the historical
center, because the capital of Piemont has still much thing to reveal
since we engage front. Thus,
Lingotto, old factory FIAT, which was transformed in an  incredible
way: we find there an immense commercial arcade, hotels, a center of
congress and the Agnelli art gallery. On the last floor, you will be
able to still see the 1km, test track FIAT more than, you will also
have a sight on the famous Olympic arch, because the Olympic village
of 2006 was located in a contiguous zone at Lingotto.
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 Just
opposite Lingotto, Eataly, the first department store/laboratory,
dedicated to the Italian gastronomy of high-quality. This last having
taken seat in the old Carpano factory which produced Vermouth, to say
as much that the place does not miss interest. 10 000 m2 devoted to
the restoration and the products of the soil, 8 restaurants, 2 coffees.
A
place which would seem almost unreal. Here, you do not only buy, you
test, you study.  To
eat becomes a pleasure, Eataly it is a lesson of taste, a lesson of
eating well where you find forgotten directions and where the word greediness
takes all its savor!
You will let yourselves guide
by your thirst to discover and learn, you will be surprised, admiring ,
it is as if we were in a museum living of the gastronomy. But the place
is not single any more since cities like Bologna or Milan have their
Eataly and apart from the country, Japan with Tokyo. Cheer in Italy
for the concept! website Eataly: click
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And as we ate well, let us
leave to do a little exercise and return on Turin in order to make beautiful
strolls
in the parco del Valentino which extends along Po. 550 000m2 which make
older park of the city,
a great oxygen puff. You will be able to also return to you, since the
place of it is not very distant, to the medieval borough. Vestige of
an Italian and artistic exposure of 1884, it reproduces buildings Piedmontese
of XVe century.
And even if it means to remain in the greenery, why not return to us
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 At
once known as made at once, us here are left again the city in direction
of the hill inhabitant of Turin and the Basilica of Superga which dominates
it. We arrive there at fallen the night, not that the distance was long,
but we have so much thing to discover that we do not see time to pass!
And finally the place at this time there of the day is very sympathetic
nerve because we benefit thus from splendid lying from sun on the Alps
which face us.
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said that time passes… oh quickly that yes! It is necessary for
us already to set out again and it remained us so much to see….
Thus to finish our visit, we go to the Royal Residence of Veneria Reale
D-open since October
2007 and after a 10 years restoration. We immediately liked.
This residence of hunting wanted by Charles Emmanuel II at the end of
the XVIIe century goes to the wire of time to evolve to become splendid
Royal Residence. About fifty rooms which offer a beautiful outline of
the life at that time.
Some in particular profited from a scenography
installation by Peter Greenaway and who plunges us in the XVII and XVIIIe
century. It is amusing and ludic, a true success and an original way
“to furnish” such a place.
We announced higher than
Turin was the capital of the Contemporary art, if you like, it will
have then to be walked along Spina Centrale to admire there works of
Mario Merz, Per Kirkeby and besides Giuseppe Penone, this route will
carry out you to the Olympic village of 2006 and the stage.
 The
gardens of the Palate of Veneria are them also an open-air theater where
works mix skilfully with the historical framework. And obviously, if
you are sensitive to this art, a visit with the Castle of Rivoli is
essential. Works are strange in turn, provocantes, some shocking times,
with advising only with the amateurs. The city as is strewn with
these installations of outdoor, as a specific course will enable you
to discover.
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Goodbye
Turin and with soon, we have still so much thing to see….
Thanks to
the tourist office of Turin and Paola Musolino which has to us allowed
this discovery, without forgetting Pierfranco Viano, our excellent guide.
 TO
KNOW
Addresses of the
offices of the tourime in Turin:
Piazza Castello/via Garibaldi
(lun-dim 9h00-19h00)
Gare ferroviaire de Porta Nuova
(lun-dim 9h30-19h00)
Aéroport international de Caselle
(lun-dim 8h00-23h00)
Call Center +39.011.535181(lun-dim
9h30-21h30)
Fax +39.011.530070
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E.mail : info.torino@turismotorino.org
Website :www.turismotorino.org
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Concerning the passcard :www.turismotorino.org/cartepass
One can also benefit from “City Sightseeing Torino”
a panoramic bus on two floors discovered, to admire the miles
facets of the city. The complete visit lasts approximately 1 hour and
is commented on using a system digital audio programmed in 6 languages.
The races take place the every day at every hour and the ticket is valid
24 hours: go down and go up in the bus with any stop. For more informations
: www.turismotorino.org/bustouristique
information
Every Saturday morning you
may choose among three walking itineraries, not to miss anything of
Turin.
For more informations: walking
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Situation
:
At 756km south-east of Paris (around 8h
by car)
At 468km north-western of Marseille (around 4h30 by car)
At 290km south-east of Lyon (around 3h00 by car)
At 642km North-East of Roma (around 6h30 by car)
At 382km North-East of Firenze (around 4h by car)
Tariffs
tunnel of Mont Blanc: click
here
 Tariffs
tunnel of Fréjus : click
here
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Price highway after the tunnel to Turin
: 12€ (around)
The
gasoline is much more expensive in Italy than in France.
 Cathedral
(Duomo) :
Open
to 9h00 at 12h00 and 15h00 at 19h00. To be correctly dress.
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Museum
:
 Holy
Shroud
Website : www.sindone.it
28
Via San Domenico
 Open
to 8h00 at 12h00 and 15h00 at 19h00 all days.
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For the
events and other museum :
www.comune.torino.it/artandmuseums.html
 Attention
some times as for the Palazzo
Reale, the visits are guided and
only in Italian
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In theory the museums are
free for less than 18 years and the most 65 years. Half-fare between
18 and 25 years. But to check
Return
choice Italy
www.itinerairesbis.com,
thank's for your visit.
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