ITALY

Italy can vaunt an enormous amount of treasures of culture and art.
Paintings, statues, churches, buildings, palaces and fountains are a sparkling series of signs through which the visitor can reconstruct a civilization that really did change the world. Indeed, so many of the worlds historic and artistic assets are within its boundaries.
In Italy there are a thousand ways to use your free time: practicing sports, cultivating hobbies, relaxing or going to a concert, a play, a traditional festival, or a sporting event or by simply sitting in a bar and enjoying a cappuccino or a glass of good wine, or wandering around the beautiful towns, visiting churches, palaces, monuments, castles, archeological sites, museums, galleries, squares and streets. Another great reason for coming to Italy is the desire to taste authentic Italian cooking.

TURIN (TORINO)

Capital of the Western Alps and of the Piedmont Region, Turin was founded 2300 years ago by the Taurini Gauls, a Celtic tribe, and was a Roman military camp called "Augusta Taurinorum" in the early Roman period. Taurus is latin for bull and still today the bull is the symbol of Turin.
In the Middle Ages the Savoys, Lords from the homonymous French region, began to extend thier ambitions towards the most important territories in Piedmont.
Since the 17th century, it has been the seat of the Savoy Dynasty who turned it into a most beautiful capital of Baroque art.
In the 19th century, it was the first capital of the Italian Kingdom after the unification of Italy.
At present Turin is a modern industrial and commercial city, the seat of Fiat and many other industries as well as the home of the famous Martini, Cinzano and Carpano Vermouth Industries.
Turin also boasts artistic churches, buildings and well-known museums. The most important of these is the Egyptian Museum, the 2^nd largest in the world after the one in Cairo.
The large squares, the straight avenues lined with trees, the streets with arcades give the city an appearance of noble and charming elegance.
Beside being famous for their wide selection of typical regional food and wines like Barolo, Barbaresco and Dolcetto, Piedmont and Turin are well-known also for their hors-d'oeuvres and "pasticceria" (small pastries, friandises, chocolate). Some of the old café bars (Baratti & Milano, Al Bicerin, Caffé Torino, Caffé San Carlo, Caffé Pepino, Caffé Mulassano) visited by the aristocracy are open to the public and one can still enjoy some of the old recipes and live the athmosphere of the past centuries.
Nowadays Turin is very proud of itself because it was the host city to the 2006 Olympic Winter Games which attracted athletes and people from all over the world and increased its popularity throughout the world.

For more turist information about Turin, please visit www.torinoconvention.it

Holy Shroud's Chapel



Egyptian Museum



Gran Madre Church



Arcades



Piazza Castello



Palazzo Reale



Piazza San Carlo



Palazzo Madama

Po river