Turin Italy

Turin Italy is the Capital of Piedmont (Piemonte) Region, the fourth most populated town after Rome, Milan and Naples.

It was the first capital of modern Italy, between 1861 and 1865, it is an important cultural, touristic, scientific, technological and industrial center of Italy.

FIAT automobile company is based here
(Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino).

Turin is a town with an exlusive patrimony of history, museums, traditions. To discover it, the ideal starter point is the square Piazza Castello: from here, in a single kilometer beam, they are easy to reach museums, squares, great monuments on which it dominates the "Mole Antonelliana" building, center of National Cinema Museum.

In the center of its square, there is Palazzo Madama building, with its carateristic medieval structure and baroque facade, center of Civic Museum of Ancient Art.

Under the city porches there is the Royal Theatre with its lyric season. Nearby there is the Royal Library with this famous Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait.

Return from Turin Italy
to Tourist Attractions in Italy Homepage