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Turin Travel Guide

Turin is a major city as well as a business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It was the first capital of modern Italy, and the host of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. The city is the headquarter of the automobile giants Fiat and also the European capital of Baroque.

About Turin

Turin covers an area of 50 sq. miles (130.2 square Km) and is estimated to have a population of 1 million people being the 4th largest city in Italy. Turin is the capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the right bank of the Po River.

Museums

Posted in Turin by admin on March 11, 2008

7a Via Francesco Giuseppe Guicciardini
Turin 10121 Italy

+39 11 54 6317

Open Hours9a-7p Tu-Su

m1.jpgThis museum was opened in 1961 to remember one of the most popular heroes of Turin during the French siege of 1706 in an area that corresponds approximately to the centre of the enemy front. As well as plastics, prints and period relics, the visit to the underground of the city is particularly enchanting, a web of tunnels where the mine that killed Micca exploded

Museo Egizio

Museo della Marionetta

Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano

Museo di Antropologia

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