Although not necessarily the fulcrum of contemporary torinese life, piazza Castello is its most important square. The architectural imprints etched on this historic area trace the city’s political history through the reign of the House of Savoy and .... Click Here for More Northeast of piazza Castello is the heart of Turin’s university life, the back streets north of via Po alive with long-haired students ‘studying’ in the countless bars and cafés. Rising above this is Turin’s Eiffel-esque icon, la Mole Antonelliana, offering superb panora .... Click Here for More Amid elegant narrow streets and landscaped piazzettas, majestic baroque palazzi house the city’s finest museums: the Galleria Sabauda, a priceless collection of paintings from the 14th to the 17th centuries, and the Museo Egizio, the largest collection of Egyptian art and artefacts outside .... Click Here for More Marked by wide and grand tree-lined boulevards, the architecture of this area was defined by the French vogue of the 19th century spreading from Haussmann’s Paris. This quarter also displays some significant testaments to Turin’s defenses against French invasion of a more military sort .... Click Here for More Turin reveals her Roman origins in the area to the northwest of piazza Castello, no better embodied than in the great Porta Palatina gate, still standing after 2,000 years. Here, narrow winding alleys still exude the secretive atmosphere of medieval times. Ignored for decades, the grid of street .... Click Here for More Not satisfied with engineering the architecture of central Turin to their aristocratic taste, the Savoy Dukes also made sure that they had the country retreats to suit. When they fancied a bit of shooting and riding they had the Stupinigi hunting lodge; when a little privacy was needed there was .... Click Here for More Thirty or so miles southeast of Turin the plain rises into a series of undulating hills beautifully raked with the symmetrical parallel lines of vineyards, suggestive of fertility, fruit and well-being. These are the hills of Le Langhe, the region known for producing the most famous of Italian w .... Click Here for More The Roman town of Asti will forever have associations, at least among British readers, with cheap, not always drinkable, sparkling wine, for it is here since the mid-19th century that the grapes have been cultivated to make that staple of student parties, Asti Spumante. Consumed in its home envi .... Click Here for More
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