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Piemontese Hotel Turin City Centre: Railway Station EUR 69
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Romantik Hotel Furno Airport: San Francesco al Campo EUR 125
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Turin Palace Hotel City Centre: Railway Station EUR 124
Grand Hotel Sitea Turin City Centre: Piazza San Carlo EUR 137
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AC Torino Lingotto Hotel Turin City Centre: Lingotto
Turin was the first capital of modern Italy, and was the host of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. While it's not a famous cultural city like Florence or Rome, the setting is pleasant, with the Po River flowing through the city, and the Italian Alps off in the distance.
Turin is an important city of technology and industry, and the FIAT automobile company is based here. (The 'T' in the name stands for Torino).
Turin inhabitants are well known across Italy for their understatement and confidentiality and the city reflects this attitude.
Somebody says it's the european capital of Baroque: many palaces and churches were built in this style during the kingdom of the Savoia. It isn't the typical Italian city, with red and yellow buldings: is a bit more french; wide boulevards with white buildings make the city centre more similar to Paris.
Turin is trying to attract more tourists, and so there are many events that worth a visit.
urin's main attractions include important baroque palaces and churches, a regular and attractive street grid, an extensive network of arcades, famous coffeeshops and a number of world-renowned museums. * Mole Antonelliana. Turin's landmark building was completed in 1888 as a
synagogue. The 167.5-meter tower is the highest work of masonry in Europe and
it now contain one of the finest cinema museum of Europe.
o The National Cinema Museum, [3]. The museum was opened in July 2000 in the
building that symbolises Turin. The exhibition space covers 3,200 square meters
and spans five floors. The themes of the floors are: the Archaeology of Cinema,
the Film Camera, a Collection of Cinema Posters, Video Installations and the
great Temple. In a spectacular setting the museum offers artefacts from the
collection of the Maria Adrianna Prolo Foundation including: magic lanterns,
optical illusions, photographs, drawings, models and other curious items.
* Museo dell'Automobile (Also Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, Biscaretti for short.), Corso Unità d’Italia 40, [4]. Some may place this above the Uffizi as a showcase of Italian art. The collection houses over 170 vehicles, from 18th-century carriages to Formula 1 racers, and lots of gorgeous red sports cars.
* The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, Duomo di San Giovanni. The Cathedral's Chapel of the Shroud houses the controversial Shroud of Turin, which is stored in a vault below the Duomo. It is only displayed by papal decree, and the last time it was shown was during the Jubilee Year of 2000. The next time it is slated to be shown is the next Jubilee Year of 2025.
* Egyptian Museum, [5]. The Egyptian Museum houses the most important collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts outside Cairo. Founded in 1824 by King Carlo Felice after acquiring the collection of the archeologist Drovetti, the museum contains 30,000 exhibits. It documents the history and civilization of Egypt from the paleolithic to the coptic era through unique exhibits and collections of objets d'art, articles of daily use and funeral furnishings (including the Altar of Isis, the canvas painted by Gebelein, the intact tombs of Kha and Merit, and the exceptional cliff temple to Ellesjia). It's the second biggest Egyptian museum of the world, second only to Cairo.
* Palazzo Madama, Piazza Castello. Recently re-opened after a long refurbishment, is attracting many tourists. It was home of the Queen, and is a mix of medieval and baroque rooms. There's a room with red sofas to take a rest after the visit, with a magnificient chandelier, and a cafeteria in one of the rooms.
* Palazzo Carignano, Via Accademia delle Scienze 5 (close to Piazza Castello).
* Quadrilatero Romano. Full of restaurants, it is the old roman town, north west from Piazza Castello.
* Via Garibaldi, pedestrian-only shopping zone nearby Piazza Castello.
* Galleria Subalpina, a pedestrian passage from Piazza Castello e Piazza Carlo Alberto. One of the most elegant place of the city.
* Valentino Park, the biggest park in Turin central area. This park is situated along the Po river and in its area you can find the Valentino Castle, and the Medieval Village (Borgo Medievale).
* Cathedral of Superga. On top of the hill near Turin, this cathedral was built in thanksgiving for a victorious battle against French and houses the tombs of the House of Savoy. In 1949 a plane carrying the entire Turin FC team fell near the cathedral, killing one of the greatest football teams ever. At the crash site a plate memorializes the dead. The top of the hill is the best view of Turin, with the magnificent Alps behind. You can reach the top by car but also by a little chain-train. Ask for the Trenino per Superga.
* Castello di Rivoli, [6]. In the small town of Rivoli, east of Turin. Houses one of Europe's most important Contemporary Art Museums. The Castle of Rivoli is a unfinished XVIII castle that stands on top of Rivoli hills. Corso Francia (France Road) is one of the world's longest streets and was built because of the desire of the House of Savoy to connect Royal Palace in the center of Turin with Rivoli Castle. You can reach it buy bus or taxi.
* Hotel Due Mondi Via Saluzzo, 3. (Savoyard City) Singles, doubles, and suites.
Breakfast included.
* Bed & Breakfast Casa Romar
* Hotel Nizza-Turin
* Hotel Conte Biancamano
* Hotel San Carlo
* Doria, Via Academia Albertina, 42 (near to Porta Nuova Train Station, Center)
+39 011 889300. Single rooms are EUR 30, doubles EUR 40. TVs and bathrooms in
the room, with very friendly staff.
* Hosteling International Torino Via Alby 1 (across the river from the city
center in the area called La Collina) +39 011 6602939. Just outside the city
center and up a fairly steep hill, Torino's main youth hostel is services by
Bus #52 (get off across the river, after the obelisk). It's clean, quiet and
includes breakfast, but there is an afternoon lockout. EUR 14.50 for dorm-room
accomodation.
* Serenella Via conte Luigi Tarino, 4 (Center) +39 011 837031 Double 31euro.
Clean and nice, fantastic price for Torino (note: at the Youth Hostel in Torino
you pay 14euro for sharing the room with other 9 people; here you can share
your room with one person for 15.50euro, and it's much closer to the city center)
* Hotel Artua'&Solferino via Brofferio, 3. (Piazza Solferino). Rooms for 1-4 people. Internet access and parking available. $80-$200
* Grand Hotel Sitea Via Carlo Alberto 35.
* Le Petit Hotel Via San Francesco d'Assisi, 21.
* Le Meridien Lingotto Via Nizza 262. Four-star business hotel in a former Fiat
factory located just outside city center. $200 and up.
* Hotel Diplomatic Via Cernaia 42.
* Hotel Victoria Via Nino Costa, 4. Three-star. Junior Suites feature two-person
jacuzzi bathtubs. Free wireless Internet in most rooms and lobby.
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