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Turin is the capital of Piedmont, known for wine and delicious food, which dates back to the time when the region was part Savoy. The House of Savoy reigned for centuries and it can still be seen in Turin, where you can see a royal palace and royal gardens.
When Italy was united in the 19th century, Turin was the country’s first capital in the years 1861-1865, thus continuing its role as an important city in European politics. Since then, Turin has developed into a major industrial city, with Fiat being one of the leading companies.
Turin is today a city with beautiful squares, fine museums and stately buildings. A walk in the city usually starts from Piazza Castello, which is the city center, and this is also where the Royal palace of Turin is located. Mole Antonelliana is usually seen as well, and a visit to the Juventus Museum is also a must for many tourists.
The Piedmont region is one of the gastronomic strongholds of Italy and Europe, and wines from Piedmont include Barolo and Asti, so there’s something to catch up on. This is also true if you want to enjoy breathtaking landscapes from large river valleys to ski areas and beautiful mountains.
The Palazzo Reale in Turin is the historic residence castle of the House of Savoy. It was originally built in the 16th century, which explains its location, which is adjacent to the city’s cathedral. In 1536, the bishops’ palace was set up as a residence for the French viceroys of Savoy, for under Duke Emanuele Filiberto it was considerably expanded until the Duke’s death in 1580. Subsequently, Carlo Emanuele I continued to build on the castle.
Later, the Duke of Savoy married Princess Christine Marie of France. She became regent in 1637, and in 1645 Christine Marie initiated the reconstruction into the present Palazzo Reale. Part of the work was the castle’s new facade, which was built 1646-1660. From 1660 to 1663, Bartolomeo Caravoglia decorated the interior of the castle in the baroque style of the time. Later, it was expanded and rebuilt in, among other things, neoclassicism, so that the castle stands as a monument over several centuries.
The Italian Republic nationalized the Palazzo Reale in 1946, and since then it has been converted into a museum. And there are many things to see here. The castle itself is elegantly furnished with sumptuous decorations of the main staircase, representative halls, throne chair and much else that belongs in a royal residence. The Royal Library/Biblioteca Reale and the Capella della Sindone, where the Shroud of Jesus is kept, are also parts of the palace complex.
In connection with the Palazzo Reale, you can see the Royal Gardens/Giardini Reali, which lie north and east of the palace itself. Part of the large green area is laid out as formal gardens, while the large eastern part was based on the construction of several avenues that create scenic perspectives. Here you can also see the fountain Fontana dei Tritoni e della Nereide, which Simone Martinez created in 1757.
The Duomo is Turin’s beautiful Roman Catholic cathedral. It is dedicated to John the Baptist and therefore also has the formal name Cattedrale di San Giovanni Battista. The cathedral was built in the years 1491-1498 in connection with the bell tower, which dates from 1470. The city’s Roman theater was once located on this site, where three churches, believed to date back to the 6th century, stood until demolitions 1490-1492.
It was Amedeo de Francisco di Settignano who designed and built the church, which Pope Leo X confirmed as a cathedral in 1515. The church has a beautiful interior that stands in Renaissance and Baroque architecture. The Duomo was expanded in the 17th century, when Bernardino Quadri planned an extension with a chapel to store the Shroud of Jesus, which the Turin Cathedral is particularly famous for having.
The Cappella della Sacra Sindone was built for the shroud, and it was Guarino Guarini who completed the chapel from 1668 to 1694 behind the choir of the 15th century church. You can clearly see the difference between the original and somewhat spartan decoration of Guarini’s chapel. The Shroud is a four meter long piece of linen that came to the cathedral in Turin in 1578. It is said to show the imprint of Jesus and it can only be seen on special occasions.
Piazza Castello is the center of Turin and the place where Via Garibaldi, Via Po, Via Roma and Via Micca meet. In the square you can enjoy elegant arcades and important buildings that are located around the square such as the Palazzo della Prefettura-Armeria Reale to the north, the Teatro Regio to the east and the church Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo to the northwest.
In the middle of Piazza Castello you can see Palazzo Madama, which, like many of the other buildings here, is a major attraction. To the north, the square continues into the smaller Piazzetta Reale, where you can see the Savoy’s old residence palace, the Palazzo Reale.
Among all the old buildings, Torre Littoria towers up to the southwest. It is a high-rise building from 1933-1934 that was built with plans to be the headquarters of, among other things, the National Fascist Party. That did not happen, and instead the high-rise building was used by an insurance company. Today, Torre Littoria is one of the most famous buildings in Italy in the era of rationalism.
The Armeria Reale is a museum that is considered one of the world’s finest displays of historical weapons, armor and more. It was King Carlo Alberto I of Sardinia who founded this amazing collection of arms and related articles, which opened to the public in 1837.
The museum was set up in the Galleria Beaumont, which in itself is a great attraction. Galleria Beaumont is a beautiful gallery built by Filippo Juvarra from 1733. The gallery is particularly famous for the rich interior decorations of the court painter Claudio Francesco Beaumont, which he executed from 1738 to 1743. Beaumont’s oil paintings on the ceiling depict stories of Æneas.
The gallery was completed in 1762, and until 1832 large paintings from the royal collections were exhibited on the walls. With Carlo Alberto I’s decision on the new museum, many effects were moved here from arsenals in Genoa and Turin and from museums. The effects had been used by Savoy or received as diplomatic gifts.
There are many highlights in the museum’s fine collections. These include the sword from San Maurizio, which was produced in the 13th century, and a sword used by Napoleon during his campaign in Egypt. These are just a few of the many exciting objects that can be experienced here in the fine setting.
Porta Palatina is a preserved city gate from Turin’s Roman times, when the city was called Julia Augusta Taurinorum. The city gate was located as an entrance to the city in the northern part of the city walls that surrounded the then city. It gave access to the Cardo Maximus, which was the central north-south street in Roman cities.
The Palatine Gate stands today as the most impressive archaeological symbol of the city’s Roman period, and it is one of the world’s best-preserved Roman gates from its time around the birth of Christ. The great gate was built with two 30-meter high towers with approximately 20 meters between the towers, where there are arched windows above the entrances of the gate itself.
Mole Antonelliana is a characteristic building in Turin, named after the architect Alessandro Antonelli, who was behind its design. The epithet mole is Italian with a meaning indicating that the building has monumental dimensions, which is also the case with Mole Antonelliana.
The 167.5 meter high building was erected from 1863 as Europe’s tallest brick building. It was a time when, for a few years, Turin was the capital of the new Italian state, and therefore you had to have a building that was worthy of the city and the country.
The building was completed in 1889 after a stay during construction. The stay was due to large budget overruns, which caused the city’s Jewish congregation to withdraw from the project, which the city of Turin took over instead. Therefore, the Mole Antonelliana was not opened as a synagogue.
The capital had moved to Florence in 1864, and therefore the project could have been scaled down, but Alessandro Antonelli’s ambitions steadily increased, and the Mole Antonelliana ended up being much taller than originally planned. At the top you can see a star that replaced the statue of an angel that originally crowned Antonelli’s work.
The tall building has over the years been used to house various museums, and today you can visit the film museum Museo Nazionale del Cinema located here. At the museum you can also experience the architecture of the Mole Antonelliana, and via a panoramic elevator you can get up to some fantastic views from the building’s outer terraces.
Palazzo Madama is a mansion in Turin with a long and exciting history behind it. In the 14th century, the House of Savoy took over the building and rebuilt it into a castle-like castle. After the rebuilding, the house used the castle until Marie Jeanne of Savoy wanted to rebuild the place into an elegant and modern castle.
It was at the end of the 17th century that work on the castle began. In 1721, however, the work stopped, not to be completed later. Therefore, you can see the new facade with the castle as the back, and this provides both a historically and architecturally interesting contrast in the streetscape.
The mansion is also located on the site of a Roman city gate, and from which the street Decumanus Maximus emanated. There are therefore also remains from the Roman era here. Today’s building is composed of architect Filippo Juvarra’s baroque facade, which was completed as the only part of modernization, and the oldest castle with four towers.
Palazzo Madama later came to play a political-historical role in Italy, as the palace became the seat of the first senate after the unification of the country, where Turin was the capital from 1860-1864. Today, the mansion is set up as a museum of ancient art, the Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, where you can see, for example, fine works from the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Via Roma is one of the main streets in central Turin. It connects Piazza Castello with Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, and along the way the street crosses, among other things, Piazza San Carlo. It is a street that was originally laid out at the end of the 16th century on the initiative of Duke Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy.
Over the centuries, the street was built up with, among other things, town houses in the Baroque style. It was named Via Roma in 1871, and until the beginning of the 20th century the original houses still stood in rows without harmonious architecture through the street, which was also characterized by a lot of traffic.
In 1931, a major renewal project started, and it became a beautiful example of the so-called Italian rationalism that was developed under Benito Mussolini in 1920-1930s Italy. New constructions in eclectic inspiration to the north of Piazza San Carlo and in rationalism to the south then replaced the existing buildings. Rationalism is seen especially at Piazza CLN.
Teatro Regio is the name of Turin’s opera house, which opened for the first time in 1740. There had been opera productions in the city before then, but with the architect Filippo Juvarra’s building, Turin got its first real opera house. It was Duke Carlo Emanuele III who laid the foundation stone for the stage where Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème premiered in 1896.
The original Royal Opera House had a beautiful interior with 1,500 seats and boxes on several floors. The theater was rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century, but unfortunately it was destroyed in a fire in 1936. The theater was reopened in a new design in 1973 with an exciting modern design, which can be enjoyed behind the preserved facade of the old Teatro Regio.
Piazza San Carlo is one of Turin’s central squares, and it is located in the cityscape as a good example from the Baroque period. In the middle of the square you can see an equestrian statue of Duke Emanuele Filiberto, Caval ‘d brons, which in Piedmontese means the bronze horse. The monument was erected in 1838 and it was Carlo Marochetti who produced the work.
It is an elegant ensemble of buildings that can be seen in Piazza San Carlo. To the south stand the twin churches Chiesa di Santa Cristina and Chiesa di San Carlo Borromeo. The churches were designed by Carlo di Castellamonte and built from 1620 to 1638, after which it took until 1718 before Filippo Juvarra completed one of the unfinished churches.
The two churches are not quite alike in decoration and architecture. On the facade of the Chiesa di Santa Cristina you can see statues of saints and allegories of the virtues, while the more austere facade of the Chiesa di San Carlo Borromeo was completed in 1830 in the neoclassicism of the time.
Incidentally, Piazza San Carlo has had several names over time. It has thus been called Piazza Reale and Piazza d’Armi, and during Napoleonic Turin it was called Place Napoléon. Today it is located in the center of Turin and is crossed by Via Roma.
Torino Porta Nuova is Turin’s main railway station and is one of Italy’s busiest railway hubs. The beautiful station building was built in the 1860s and stands as one of the contemporary fine architectural works, reflecting the rapid and prestigious development of the railways at the time.
Porta Nuova is a sack railway yard, where the tracks end at the large square Piazza Carlo Felice, which forms the entrance to the city center along Via Roma. The location of the railway station is the reason for the name Torino Porta Nuova, as one of the city’s now historic city gates stood close to the current station building.
The Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo is a magnificent Baroque church in Turin, which was built in the years 1668-1687. It was designed by Guarino Guarini. The church was built as a monument to victories in the Battle of Saint-Quentin in 1557, and it is located next to the Palazzo Reale, which was the residence castle of the House of Savoy.
The church’s facade looks like a baroque mansion, and it therefore hides the beautiful interior that you can experience in the church room. Guarini was inspired by Francesco Borromini’s baroque works in Rome, and with the Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo, the architect created a renewed version of this baroque through optical effects and a kind of deconstruction of the classical forms.
Some of the interesting details can be seen in the dome, which is supported by eight crossing arches, which form a kind of eight-pointed star, rarely seen in churches. There are smaller windows between the arches, and at the top the lantern of the dome is surrounded by an octagonal shape. The combination of these geometric features and the reflection of light creates shapes that look like faces.
Museo Egizio is a museum in Turin where you can experience a distinguished archaeological and anthropological collection of Egyptian finds and effects. The collection is one of the world’s largest of its kind, which can be experienced outside of Egypt. It is considered the most important Egyptian museum after the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo.
The first object with an Egyptian connection came to Turin in 1630, and in 1753 this tablet prompted Duke Carlo Emanuele III to send Vitaliano Donati to Egypt to acquire more objects. Donati came home with approximately 300 effects, not least from excavations in Karnak and Coptos, today known as Qift, which he had bought on behalf of the duke in Egypt.
During the time since Carlo Emanuele III’s purchase, the collections grew continuously with acquisitions of large collections several times. Today, the collections consist of over 37,000 objects representing different periods of Egyptian development, with exhibits ranging from papyri to sarcophagi.
Fiat Lingotto is Fiat’s famous factory that opened on Via Nizza in Turin in 1923. The factory is also a curious sight that has no equal anywhere in the world due to the special structure of car production and the use of the building’s roof structure.
The factory was laid out so that raw materials were delivered into the ground floor, and the cars were then built in an upward direction, so that the finished cars ended up on a 1,500 meter long test track on the roof. Here there was an oval track where you could drive the cars produced before they were sent to the market.
It was the architect Giacomo Matté-Trucco who designed the innovative building that opened as the world’s largest car factory. Countless car models were produced over the years in the Lingotto building, such as the famous Fiat 500 with the nickname Topolino.
Fiat Lingotto closed in 1982, when the car manufacturer had opened a modern factory in the district of Mirafiori. The old factory was later restored and converted into a modern complex with concert halls, a theatre, a convention centre, shopping arcades and a hotel. The test track at the top was preserved as a sight on that occasion.
Palazzo Carignano is a 17th-century mansion where you can visit the museum Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano, which depicts the history of the Italian unification, where different states on the Italian peninsula formed the Kingdom of Italy starting from the 19th century. The mansion was also set up as a parliament in the years 1848-1861 and thereby played a political role in Italy.
Palazzo Carignano is named after the princes of Carignano, who had a private residence in the palace. The princes belonged to the House of Savoy. The mansion was built on the initiative of Prince Emanuele Filiberto, who commissioned the architect Guarino Guarini to design the residence. The result was a beautiful baroque mansion and elegant furnishings, and by visiting the museum in the mansion, you can also see parts of the interior.
The Abbazia della Sacra di San Michele is an abbey that sits majestically on top of the mountain Monte Pirchiriano west of the city of Turin. Also known simply as the Sacra di San Michele, the abbey is a well-known site and a major attraction along the southern part of the Susa Valley.
The abbey is believed to have been built in the 9th century, as the crypt is known from this time. According to tradition, the first one was built by a hermit at the behest of the archangel Michael, and the building materials that the hermit had collected were miraculously transported to the top of the mountain.
Since then, the hermit’s refuge became a place of pilgrimage, attracting monks who settled here. In the 11th century, the actual monastery is believed to have been established, and over time the building was expanded to a considerable extent with a larger monastery until the 15th century. Today you can visit the place, and after the trip to the mountain top you will also be rewarded with a fantastic view.
Susa is a pleasant town on the banks of the Po River, whose history dates back to Roman times, from which there are remains at Piazza Savoia. It was a transitional regional capital, and it also developed with a strategically good location on the roads between France and Italy.
Today there is a lovely atmosphere in the old town centre, where you can see, among other things, the city’s cathedral, which was built from the year 1029 as a church at a Benedictine monastery. From the Roman period, you can see the triumphal arch Arco di Augusto, built in honor of the emperor Augustus in the year 8 BC.
Acqui Terme is a city that was already known in the Roman Empire, where it bore the name Aquae Statiellae. The Romans used the city’s hot spring for Roman baths, as was the case with many cities in the extensive empire. The city also came on the Roman road network from, among other things, Augusta Taurinorum, which is today Turin.
There are several things to see in Acqui Terme, where it is the town’s cozy center and a number of fine churches that should be experienced side by side with the region’s delicious food and drink. Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta is the city’s cathedral and was built over several centuries. You can also visit the castle Castello Dei Paleologi, where there is an archaeological museum.
Aosta is an old city in northwestern Italy, where you can experience many fine sights that date back to Roman times, when the city was called Augusta Praetoria Salassorum. The Roman city walls still surround the city, and there are also two city gates, a theater and the triumphal arch of the Roman era, the Arco di Augusto.
You can also see the fortified tower Tour du Lépreux, built in the Middle Ages on the ruins of an earlier Roman tower. From later times, it is not least Aosta’s cathedral that is worth seeing. It was originally built in the 3rd century, but rebuilt in the 11th century. Between 1846 and 1848 the neoclassical facade was built.
Alba is a city located in Piedmont’s famous wine regions, and therefore many people go on excursions here. On a visit, it is obvious to enjoy the wine region, which in addition to Alba also includes towns such as Asti and Bra, and of course you can also try the truffles that Alba is known for.
There are also several sights that you can see on a tour of the city. Alba is home to, among other things, the town hall Palazzo Comunale from the 13th century, several towers from the 14th-15th centuries and the city’s Romanesque cathedral, Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, which dates from the 12th century. You can also walk around and simply enjoy the cozy centre.
Limone is a small town in the region that is one of Italy’s oldest and most famous ski resorts. Ski tourism was developed when the railway came to Limone in 1891 and the first ski competition was held in the town in 1907. Since then Limone has established itself as a ski resort.
Today, there is easy access to several ski areas from the cozy town, and of course there are many kilometers of slopes where you can enjoy the alpine terrain. The town itself is also cozy with narrow streets, several small churches, squares and cafes.
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Turin, Italy
Overview of Turin Torino
Turin is the capital of Piedmont, known for wine and delicious food, which dates back to the time when the region was part Savoy. The House of Savoy reigned for centuries and it can still be seen in Turin, where you can see a royal palace and royal gardens.
When Italy was united in the 19th century, Turin was the country’s first capital in the years 1861-1865, thus continuing its role as an important city in European politics. Since then, Turin has developed into a major industrial city, with Fiat being one of the leading companies.
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Mole Antonelliana is a characteristic building in Turin, named after the architect Alessandro Antonelli, who was behind its design. The epithet mole is Italian with a meaning indicating that the building has monumental dimensions, which is also the case with Mole Antonelliana.
The 167.5 meter high building was erected from 1863 as Europe’s tallest brick building. It was a time when, for a few years, Turin was the capital of the new Italian state, and therefore you had to have a building that was worthy of the city and the country.
The building was completed in 1889 after a stay during construction. The stay was due to large budget overruns, which caused the city’s Jewish congregation to withdraw from the project, which the city of Turin took over instead. Therefore, the Mole Antonelliana was not opened as a synagogue.
The capital had moved to Florence in 1864, and therefore the project could have been scaled down, but Alessandro Antonelli’s ambitions steadily increased, and the Mole Antonelliana ended up being much taller than originally planned. At the top you can see a star that replaced the statue of an angel that originally crowned Antonelli’s work.
The tall building has over the years been used to house various museums, and today you can visit the film museum Museo Nazionale del Cinema located here. At the museum you can also experience the architecture of the Mole Antonelliana, and via a panoramic elevator you can get up to some fantastic views from the building’s outer terraces.
Palazzo Madama is a mansion in Turin with a long and exciting history behind it. In the 14th century, the House of Savoy took over the building and rebuilt it into a castle-like castle. After the rebuilding, the house used the castle until Marie Jeanne of Savoy wanted to rebuild the place into an elegant and modern castle.
It was at the end of the 17th century that work on the castle began. In 1721, however, the work stopped, not to be completed later. Therefore, you can see the new facade with the castle as the back, and this provides both a historically and architecturally interesting contrast in the streetscape.
The mansion is also located on the site of a Roman city gate, and from which the street Decumanus Maximus emanated. There are therefore also remains from the Roman era here. Today’s building is composed of architect Filippo Juvarra’s baroque facade, which was completed as the only part of modernization, and the oldest castle with four towers.
Palazzo Madama later came to play a political-historical role in Italy, as the palace became the seat of the first senate after the unification of the country, where Turin was the capital from 1860-1864. Today, the mansion is set up as a museum of ancient art, the Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, where you can see, for example, fine works from the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Via Roma is one of the main streets in central Turin. It connects Piazza Castello with Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, and along the way the street crosses, among other things, Piazza San Carlo. It is a street that was originally laid out at the end of the 16th century on the initiative of Duke Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy.
Over the centuries, the street was built up with, among other things, town houses in the Baroque style. It was named Via Roma in 1871, and until the beginning of the 20th century the original houses still stood in rows without harmonious architecture through the street, which was also characterized by a lot of traffic.
In 1931, a major renewal project started, and it became a beautiful example of the so-called Italian rationalism that was developed under Benito Mussolini in 1920-1930s Italy. New constructions in eclectic inspiration to the north of Piazza San Carlo and in rationalism to the south then replaced the existing buildings. Rationalism is seen especially at Piazza CLN.
Teatro Regio is the name of Turin’s opera house, which opened for the first time in 1740. There had been opera productions in the city before then, but with the architect Filippo Juvarra’s building, Turin got its first real opera house. It was Duke Carlo Emanuele III who laid the foundation stone for the stage where Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème premiered in 1896.
The original Royal Opera House had a beautiful interior with 1,500 seats and boxes on several floors. The theater was rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century, but unfortunately it was destroyed in a fire in 1936. The theater was reopened in a new design in 1973 with an exciting modern design, which can be enjoyed behind the preserved facade of the old Teatro Regio.
Piazza San Carlo is one of Turin’s central squares, and it is located in the cityscape as a good example from the Baroque period. In the middle of the square you can see an equestrian statue of Duke Emanuele Filiberto, Caval ‘d brons, which in Piedmontese means the bronze horse. The monument was erected in 1838 and it was Carlo Marochetti who produced the work.
It is an elegant ensemble of buildings that can be seen in Piazza San Carlo. To the south stand the twin churches Chiesa di Santa Cristina and Chiesa di San Carlo Borromeo. The churches were designed by Carlo di Castellamonte and built from 1620 to 1638, after which it took until 1718 before Filippo Juvarra completed one of the unfinished churches.
The two churches are not quite alike in decoration and architecture. On the facade of the Chiesa di Santa Cristina you can see statues of saints and allegories of the virtues, while the more austere facade of the Chiesa di San Carlo Borromeo was completed in 1830 in the neoclassicism of the time.
Incidentally, Piazza San Carlo has had several names over time. It has thus been called Piazza Reale and Piazza d’Armi, and during Napoleonic Turin it was called Place Napoléon. Today it is located in the center of Turin and is crossed by Via Roma.
Torino Porta Nuova is Turin’s main railway station and is one of Italy’s busiest railway hubs. The beautiful station building was built in the 1860s and stands as one of the contemporary fine architectural works, reflecting the rapid and prestigious development of the railways at the time.
Porta Nuova is a sack railway yard, where the tracks end at the large square Piazza Carlo Felice, which forms the entrance to the city center along Via Roma. The location of the railway station is the reason for the name Torino Porta Nuova, as one of the city’s now historic city gates stood close to the current station building.
The Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo is a magnificent Baroque church in Turin, which was built in the years 1668-1687. It was designed by Guarino Guarini. The church was built as a monument to victories in the Battle of Saint-Quentin in 1557, and it is located next to the Palazzo Reale, which was the residence castle of the House of Savoy.
The church’s facade looks like a baroque mansion, and it therefore hides the beautiful interior that you can experience in the church room. Guarini was inspired by Francesco Borromini’s baroque works in Rome, and with the Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo, the architect created a renewed version of this baroque through optical effects and a kind of deconstruction of the classical forms.
Some of the interesting details can be seen in the dome, which is supported by eight crossing arches, which form a kind of eight-pointed star, rarely seen in churches. There are smaller windows between the arches, and at the top the lantern of the dome is surrounded by an octagonal shape. The combination of these geometric features and the reflection of light creates shapes that look like faces.
Museo Egizio is a museum in Turin where you can experience a distinguished archaeological and anthropological collection of Egyptian finds and effects. The collection is one of the world’s largest of its kind, which can be experienced outside of Egypt. It is considered the most important Egyptian museum after the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo.
The first object with an Egyptian connection came to Turin in 1630, and in 1753 this tablet prompted Duke Carlo Emanuele III to send Vitaliano Donati to Egypt to acquire more objects. Donati came home with approximately 300 effects, not least from excavations in Karnak and Coptos, today known as Qift, which he had bought on behalf of the duke in Egypt.
During the time since Carlo Emanuele III’s purchase, the collections grew continuously with acquisitions of large collections several times. Today, the collections consist of over 37,000 objects representing different periods of Egyptian development, with exhibits ranging from papyri to sarcophagi.
Fiat Lingotto is Fiat’s famous factory that opened on Via Nizza in Turin in 1923. The factory is also a curious sight that has no equal anywhere in the world due to the special structure of car production and the use of the building’s roof structure.
The factory was laid out so that raw materials were delivered into the ground floor, and the cars were then built in an upward direction, so that the finished cars ended up on a 1,500 meter long test track on the roof. Here there was an oval track where you could drive the cars produced before they were sent to the market.
It was the architect Giacomo Matté-Trucco who designed the innovative building that opened as the world’s largest car factory. Countless car models were produced over the years in the Lingotto building, such as the famous Fiat 500 with the nickname Topolino.
Fiat Lingotto closed in 1982, when the car manufacturer had opened a modern factory in the district of Mirafiori. The old factory was later restored and converted into a modern complex with concert halls, a theatre, a convention centre, shopping arcades and a hotel. The test track at the top was preserved as a sight on that occasion.
Palazzo Carignano is a 17th-century mansion where you can visit the museum Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano, which depicts the history of the Italian unification, where different states on the Italian peninsula formed the Kingdom of Italy starting from the 19th century. The mansion was also set up as a parliament in the years 1848-1861 and thereby played a political role in Italy.
Palazzo Carignano is named after the princes of Carignano, who had a private residence in the palace. The princes belonged to the House of Savoy. The mansion was built on the initiative of Prince Emanuele Filiberto, who commissioned the architect Guarino Guarini to design the residence. The result was a beautiful baroque mansion and elegant furnishings, and by visiting the museum in the mansion, you can also see parts of the interior.
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