Turin

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2. Where is Turin?

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5. Introduction Turin ( Torino ) it’s Italy’s fourth-largest city and has an illustrious past, the history of Turin has been strictly linked to the history of Italy. The city surrounds a part of the Po river and it is situated near the Piedmont’s Alps.

6. History of Turin At first, the city was a simple Celtic or Ligurian settlement, that became the Roman colony of Augusta Taurinorum.

7. History of Turin In succeeding years, Goths, Lombards and Franks tramped through the city. In 1563 the Savoys abandoned their old capital of Chambéry (now in France) to set up court in Turin.

8. History of Turin Napoleonoccupied Turin in 1798. After Napoleonic Wars Vittorio Emanuele I re-entered Turin in 1814.

9. History of Turin Nevertheless, Austria remained the true power throughout the greatest part of Italy until the Risorgimento (‘the Resurgence’, the Italian unification) in 1861, when Turin became the nation’s first capital.

10. History of Turin Turin adapted quickly to its loss of political significance, becoming a centre for industrial production during the early 20th century. The most important Turin industry is the F.I.A.T.

11. History of Turin The Olympics games of 2006 not only ushered in a building boom, including a brand-new metro system, but transformed Turin from a staid industrial centre into a vibrant metropolis.

12. Turin’s Historicals Monuments

13. The Mole Antonelliana Is the real symbol of the city of Turin,it was built between 1863 and 1889.

14. The Mole Antonelliana The Antonellian Mole should have been the Jewish temple of the Turin Israel Communion, but it was sold to the city, and now is the National museum of Cinema

15. Palazzo Madama The front was added by Filippo Juvarra in 1721 when it lost its defence function and it became an elegant palace. This museum has rich and heterogeneous collections: paintings, furniture, carvings, ceramics, old enamels, glassware, ivories, tapestries etc.

16. Palazzo Carignano Palazzo Carignanois a palace where Carlo Alberto and Vittorio Emanuele were born and which is the original creation of the architect Guarino Guarini. In 1848 the elliptical central hall, became the chamber of the first Subalpine Parliament. The main floor's rooms of Palazzo Carignano give hospitality to the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento.

17. Royal Palace of Turin It was the royal Madam Cristine of France, Vittorio Amedeo I duke's wife, who had the palace built in 1646; it became the Royal Palace of Turin,the official residence of the dukes and later, for more than two centuries, of the Sabaudian kings.

18. The Real Church of St. Lorenzo The Real Church of St. Lorenzo, restored on the occasion of the two Expositions of the Holy Shroud (which took place in 1998 and 2000)

19. Chapel of the Holy Shroud The Dome of San Giovanni contains a chapel with a baroque cupola, which is the so-called Cappella della Sacra Sindone (Chapel of the Holy Shroud) where there is the silver shrine containing the presumed shroud of Christ. The Shroud is a 4,36 metres long and 1,11 metres wide sheet, which has a human imprint impressed on it.