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Turin’s Luci d’Artista light installations usher in the festive season, transforming the streets they adorn into open-air attractions.
Museo dell'Automobile di Torino = MAUTO
This automobile museum opened in 1960 and is considered among the most important and ancient automobile museums of the world. It was renovated between 2007 and 2011.
The collection is insane. The Formula room with the race car grid is out of this world. They have an entire grid of original race cars chronologically ordered from modern to old. Machines driven by Schumacher, Fangio, Ascari on so on. In the same room, in a corner, Nicola Larini's Alfa 155 DTM machine with iconic Martini Racing livery.
The Regional Museum of Natural History of Turin (Italian: Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, abbreviated as MRSN) it is located in the former San Giovanni Battista Hospital, built at the end of the 17th century by Amedeo di Castellamonte and completed by other renowned architects at a later time.
De kruising van de Via XX Settembre en de Via Garibaldi in Turijn in 1977. Allebei smalle straten, zodat er geen ruimte was voor dubbelsporige bogen. Voor de afslaande tramlijnen (gezien vanuit de Via Garibaldi: 6 rechtsaf, 3 linksaf) lagen er daarom enkelsporige bogen. De trams die een bocht rechtsaf maakten moesten zodoende eerst overlopen naar het linkerspoor en daarna in de zijstraat, waar ze ook op het linkerspoor terechtkwamen, weer naar het rechterspoor.
De oude trams in Turijn waren toch al tamelijk lawaaiig met hun rijgeluiden en hun sissende trolleywieltje langs de bovenleiding, maar op de wissels en kruisingen tussen deze hoge gevels was het helemaal heavy metal van jewelste.
Tegenwoordig rijdt de tram alleen nog in deze straat, waar nu enkelspoor ligt. In de tegenrichting rijden de trams door een parallelstraat
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The crossing of Via XX Settembre and Via Garibaldi in Turin in 1977. Both are narrow streets, with only room for single-track curves at the time. Coming from Via Garibaldi route 6 took the right curve and route 3 the left. Trams making the right turn had to cross over to the left track and after the bend back to the right track.
The old Turin stock with its pre-war trucks and hissing trolley wheel was rather noisy, and in these narrow streets with high facades their sounds on the pointwork reached heavy metal level.
At present, trams are only running in this street and on single track. In the opposite direction they use a parallel street
An early morning view over Turin from the Santa Maria del Monte dei Cappuccini church. Having visited this viewpoint on our first evening I wanted to go back at sunrise.
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From Wikipedia : "Turin (Italian: Torino) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Turin (an administrative division of Italy) and of the Piedmont region, and was the first capital city of Italy from 1861 to 1865. The city is located mainly on the western bank of the Po River, in front of Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alpine arch and Superga Hill. The population of the city proper is 878,074 (31 July 2018) while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the OECD to have a population of 2.2 million."
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It took about an hour and a half to walk from central Turin to the base of the hill on top of which the Basilica of Superga sits. Luckily then we took the funuicular train to the top as it would've been quite a climb.
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From Wikipedia : "It was built from 1717 to 1731 for Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, designed by Filippo Juvarra, at the top of the hill of Superga. This fulfilled a vow the duke (and future King of Sardinia) had made during the Battle of Turin, after defeating the besieging French army in the War of the Spanish Succession. The architect alluded to earlier styles while adding a baroque touch. The church contains the tombs of many princes and kings of the House of Savoy, including the Monument to Carlo Emanuele III (1733) by Ignazio Collino and his brother Filippo. Under the church are the tombs of the Savoy family, including most of its members (among them, Charles Albert).
This church by Juvarra is considered late Baroque-Classicism. The dome was completed in 1726 and resembles some elements of Michelangelo's dome at St. Peter's Basilica. This is no coincidence as Juvarra studied and worked in Rome for ten years prior to working in Turin. The temple front protrudes from a dome structure citing the Pantheon. The temple front is larger than typical proportions because the Superga is set upon this hill. It is also believed that Victor Amadeus wanted the basilica to rest on this hill as reminder of the power of the Savoy family as well as continue a line of sight to the existing Castle of Rivoli. Later, the Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi completed the triangle between the three residences of Savoy."
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Quite similar to a previous upload of the Stupinigi Palace but it it's just too amazing a space not to upload a few more of before I move on.
What may not be apparent from the photos, mainly thanks to how convincing it is it that most of this decoration is actually Trompe-l'Å“il, i.e. it's actually a flat surface painted to give the illusion it's three dimensional.
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From Wikipedia : "The Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi (Italian: "The hunting residence of Stupinigi") is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy in northern Italy, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. Built as a royal hunting lodge in the early 18th century, it is located in Stupinigi, a suburb of the town of Nichelino, 10 km (6 mi) southwest of Turin.......
The original purpose of the hunting lodge is symbolized by the bronze stag perched at the apex of the stepped roof of its central dome, and the hounds' heads that decorate the vases on the roofline. The building has a saltire plan: four angled wings project from the oval-shaped main hall.
The extensions resulted in separate pavilions linked by long angled galleries and a long octagonal forecourt enclosed by wings, extended forwards in two further entrance courts."
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As the sun started to set on our first day in Turin we headed up to the popular viewing terrace outside the Santa Maria del Monte dei Cappuccini church. Given how the historic centre of the city has avoided any modern high rise development the iconic 'Mole' tower stands out against the backdrop of the Alps.
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From Wikipedia : "The Mole Antonelliana is a major landmark building in Turin, Italy, named after its architect, Alessandro Antonelli. A mole in Italian is a building of monumental proportions.
Construction began in 1863, soon after Italian unification, and was completed in 1889, after the architect's death. Originally conceived of as a synagogue, it now houses the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, and is believed to be the tallest museum in the world. A representation of the building is featured on the obverse of the Italian 2 cent euro coin."
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