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Visit town of Turin, visit the museums of Turin (Torino)
Address of the Tourism office of Turin,
the passcard to visit Turin, City Sightseeing Torino
the market of Turin, decorations in the streets for Christmas,
Eataly: all the gastronomy Italian, situation of Turin
some infos and tariffs of the tunnels of Mont Blanc,
tariffs of the tunnel of Frejus
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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.
See
the address for the Holy Shroud's museum
top
of the page
We
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.
See
the address for the Palazzo Reale top
of the page
Palazzo Madama
The
Palazzo Madama is situated on Piazza Castello. Its beautiful baroque facade
shows the greatness of this building created on a still visible Roman
base today.
For a complete visit it is thus recommended to visit the Roman foundations
and to continue
up to the summit of the building to appreciate completely the 
Palazzo
Madama. You can so see according to your ascent the part which goes back
to the Middle Ages and which knew how to be intelligently
insert into the baroque part.
4 parts compose the visit: the basement and the roman time, the ground
floor 
which
keeps most elements of the XVth century with a collection going of the
Middle Ages to the Renaissance, but also a garden the origin of which
would go back up in 1402. Then you will take the magnificent monumental
stair to reach a first floor where the baroque is
for the honor with a painting gallery and especially magnificent furniture
signed Prinotto and 
Piffetti,
you can also see the elegant veranda with its view on Piazza Castello.
When you will reach the second floor you will discover a collection of
decorative arts including all the periods with among others details of
silversmith's trades, ceramic, ivories.
The visit ends
with the tower, height of 30m, and its panoramic view of Turin. 
But
beyond a palace, you should not forget that Palazzo Madama is before any
the museum of Piedmont and that it is the reason why you can also admire
works and rooms resulting from all the region and so to get acquainted
with Piedmontese artists.
Mixing by force of circumstance several periods and several styles, Palazzo
Madama tells all the history of Piedmont making of this palace / museum
a place of important for Turin
and the visit is advised. See
the address for the Palazzo Madama
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.
See
the address for the Nazional cinema's museum
top
of the page
To visit this interesting
museum it is necessary to go in a part of Turin where the tourist seems
absent and who is nevertheless not far from the historic center. 
This
small museum promises a fascinating and very enriching visit because it
tells an episode of the history of Turin and especially it plunges you
into bowels of the earth, because the basement of the city was the witness
of numerous events as that told in this museum.
It is in fact on the place of the siege and the battle of Turin in 1706
against French. The Pietro Micca museum is installed on the galleries
which were dug to be able to reach the enemy and tells the tragic story
of a patriot of Pietro Micca's name.
To understand well the visit it is necessary to know that Turin was a
fortified city surrounded with an outer wall and inside there had a citadel.
When they were besieged by French, the people of Turin decide to defend
itself, and 
dig
galleries to go of the other side of the fortifications where is the enemy
camp . So that today there are more of 14km of galleries which are under
your feet when you are inside the museum. But only 9km are visible.
The visit thus tells the story of this siege and leads you in the maze
of these galleries. You plunge at the heart of the event and of the Pietro
Micca's heroic gesture.
But rather than to tell you the story of this Piedmontese hero, we prefer
to let you discover it by going to visit this museum. Not only it will
allow you to go out of the historic center but you will learn on a piece
of history and the consequences of which will be very important for Europe
of the XVIIIth century.
See
the address for the Pietro Micca's museum
top
of the page
We had known the old museum and looked forward to seeing the new. Situated
on the same location it is more bigger and more modern.
Collections are fabulous and the visit follows a playful and chronological
route. You learn
the history of the automobile through cars which make dream. The science
and the technique are present everywhere in the museum showing 
the
evolution of a machine become almost essential today.
The memories wake up then in each of us. Who did not know such or such
model, who did not dream to drive this kind of racing car, who would not
like to make a tour in one of the prestigious cars exposed.
The museum of the
automobile of Turin it is all this:
the dream, memories and the history of a knowledge.
A
big epic understanding 200 original cars of 80 different marks, going
first steam cars of 1769 to the most recent models.
If we are nostalgic of the former museum which had its charm, we have
to recognize that this renovation is a success all the same and that by
her directions it seduces proposing an interesting, funny and fascinating
visit.Opening
days, times and prices
See the address for the Automobile's museum top of the page
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
on the link top
of the page
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 on
the hills. top of the page
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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We
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.
See the
address for the Veneria Reale
top
of the page
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 top of the page
E.mail :
info.torino@turismotorino.org
Website :www.turismotorino.org top of the page
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
itineraries top
of the page
Palazzo Madama
Piazza Castello
Turin
Tel : 0039 011 44 33 501
Website : www.palazzomadamatorino.it
Pietro Micca's Museum
via Guicciardini 7
Turin
Tel : 0039 011 54 63 17
E.mail : mpm@biblioteche.reteunitaria.piemonte.it
Website : www.museopietromicca.it
Automobile's
Museum
Corso Unità d'Italia 40
Turin
Tel : 0039 011 677 666/7/8
E.mail : info@museoauto.it
Website : www.museoauto.it
Museum
of St Shroud
28 Via San Domenico
Turin
Website: www.sindone.it
Open to 8h00 and 12h00 and 15h00 to 19h00 every days.
The Palazzo Reale
Open to
8h00 at 12h00 and 15h00 at 19h00 all days.
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of the page
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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of the page
The
Venaria Reale
piazza della Repubblica 4 - Venaria Reale
Infos et réservations: tel. +39 011 4992333 -
E-mail: prenotazioni@lavenariareale.it
Website : www.lavenaria.it
Nazionale
Cinema's Museum
Fondazione Maria Adriana Prolo
Via Montebello, 20
10124 Torino
Website : www.museocinema.it
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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 top of the page
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. top of the page
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
www.itinerairesbis.com, thank's for your visit.