Torino
We stayed in Turin (Piedmontese for the Italian name) a few nights on our way to Barolo. I left the car in a rather strange parking garage a short walk from our hotel. Gitty doesn’t feel the need to return to Torino, but we only scratched the surface of what this fourth largest Italian city has to offer.
For one thing, there is no city center to speak of. Rather, there are many areas with huge open plazas lined with restaurants, usually ten to twenty minute walks apart. Torino suffers from having way too much space.
A replica of Thor’s hammer
There are interesting attractions we just didn’t have time to visit like the National Museum of Automobiles, The Royal Palace, and any number of Cathedrals, but unlike many Italian cities, everything is spread apart. One attraction I couldn’t miss was the National Museum of Cinema, fortunately a short walk from our hotel. This museum was housed in the Mole Antonelliana tower and encompassed four levels with rotoscopes, old cameras and movie equipment, film clips, and props like the Golden Snitch from the Harry Potter films.
Gitty and I enjoyed exploring the large plazas, finding a spot to sit down and order a drink. Little snacks always accompanied drinks.
Open plazas like Piazza Vittorio Veneto offered many opportunities to have a cocktail
In the end, we didn’t do much in Torino other than computer work that was piling up. A lot of little projects from our time in the US and Germany still needed our attention as well as future planning.
We were happy to see Torino in the rear view mirror as we headed to Piedmont and the Barolo area, much more interesting for us.
