List of best sights to visti in Turino, Italy

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Museo Egizio

This was, in fact, the world's first Egyptian museum, thanks to the Savoys' habit of ardently amassing artifacts throughout their reign, and the museum continued to mount collecting expeditions throughout the early 20th century. Of the 30,000 pieces on display... » more
 
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Mole Antonelliana/Museo Nazionale del Cinema (National Film Museum)

It is comprised of a squat brick base, a steep conelike roof supporting several layers of Greek temples piled one atop the other, and a needlelike spire, all of it rising 166m (552 ft.) above the rooftops of the city center—a height that, at one time... » more
 
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Galleria Sabau

Upstairs in the same building as the Egyptian collection. The Savoy's royal taste ran heavily to painters of the Flemish and Dutch schools, and the works by van Dyck, van Eyck, Rembrandt, and van der Weyden, among others, comprise one of Italy's largest collections of northern European paintings... » more
 
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Basilica di Superga

Vittorio Amedeo II commissioned Juvarra, the Sicilian architect who did his greatest work in Turin, to build this baroque basilica on a hill high above the city.. » more
 
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Palazzo Madama

Don't be misled by the baroque facade on the Palazzo Madama which was added by architect Filippo Juvarra in the 18th century. If you walk around the exterior of the palazzo... » more
 
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Palazzo Reale

Begun in 1645 and designed by the Francophile count of Castellamonte, it reflects the ornately baroque tastes of European ruling families of the time—a fact that will not be lost on you as you pass from one opulently decorated, heavily gilded room to the next... » more
 
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Armeria Reale

One wing Pallazzo Reale houses the Armeria Reale, one of the most important arms and armor collections in Europe, especially of weapons from the 16th and 17th centuries... » more
 
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Cattedrale di San Giovanni Battista/Shroud of Turin

Just north of the Piazza Castello and the Royal Palace sits the bland facade of the catehdral Far more interesting is the single chapel inside the cathedral’s pompous, 15th-century interior... » more
 
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GAM

founded in 1863, so its collections actually start with late-18th- and 19th-century neoclassical and Romantic works by Piemontese and other artists (Canova, Massimo d'Azeglio, Francesco Hayez... » more
 
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Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi

The other great work of the architect Juvarra aisde from the Basilica di Superga★★.The main part of the lodge, to which the members of the House of Savoy retired for hunts in the royal forests that still surround it, is shaped like a Saint Andrew's cross (the lower arms extended and curved back inwards like giant pincers),... » more
 
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Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento

To understand Italy—or at the very least to learn the stories behind Cavour, Garibaldi, Mazzini, Vittorio Emanuele II, Massimo d'Azeglio, and other people after whom most of the major streets and piazze in Italy are named... » more
 
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Museo dell Automobile

As befits a city responsible for 80% of Italian car manufacturing, the Museo dell Automobile is a shiny collection of most of the cars that have done Italy proud over the years, including Lancias, Isotta Frashinis, and the Itala that came in first in the 1907 Peking-to-Paris rally... » more
 
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Piazza San Carlo

the city's outdoor living room, surrounded by arcaded sidewalks that house the terraces of the cafes for which Turin is famous... » more
 
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Parco del Valentino

Aside from riverfront promenades and extensive lawns and gardens, inside the park, there's a collection of enchanting buildings;The Borgo Medioevale, Castello del Valentino... » more
 

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