Torino, Italy

Back to my journey in Italy. On 26 March, i went to Torino (Turin).

'Torino, is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River surrounded by the Alpine arch.'

Source: Wikipedia

So, from what i understand Torino is a capital of Italy in the past (Not sure one hah!).

And since Milan is just near to Torino, my colleague and I decided to give a visit there.

The train from Milan to Torino takes about 2 hours, with a cost of Euro 9.55 per trip.

This is a very well organized city i must said, the maps can prove you.

All the buildings and streets were well organized in shape!

I can't believe there's a city as tidy as this. You gotta be believe me, you can try your own and visit there! (Italy should reward me something for writing so many blogs about italy lah! haha)

2 hours of journey, we reached there at almost noon time, Torino greet us with a very nice view as above. The weather was awesome, the streets are beautiful & so many things (except the blacks that annoyed me).

The typical western style of building is the train station, Stazione Di Porta Nuova.

And do you know that Italy is celebrating their 150 years old this year?

This is the statue of i-forgot-the-name. haha..

The location was Piazza San Marco.

You can easily reach this monument by walking from the Stazione Di Porta Nuova to the direction of Palazzo Madama.

This is me, taken while waiting the traffic light in the middle of road.

If you spotted carefully, you can actually saw the railway of Turin Tramcar behind me. :)

To visit Torino, this is a place you must visit and take picture.

The landmark of Torino, Mole Antonelliana (National Museum of Cinema).

It's very beautiful building indeed, and there's offering panoramic view from up.

You have to pay for the visit, too bad there were so many people at the time we visited, and also i've no idea and not interested with Italian movie so we decide to give it a pass.

More about Mole Antonelliana here.

From my point of view, you must visit the old city of Torino also!

It's seperated by Fiume Po, a river that used to seperate the modern city and the older city.

You have to experience yourself to believe that you can actually differentiate two kind of city just in front of your eyes. Crossing a bridge makes you actually feel like you're walking a time machine to the older city of Torino.

So, for sure i crossed Fiuma Po and reach the old city. First thing welcome you was the Piazza Gran Madre Di Dio. Thus, i took this photo while i was crossing the bridge. Beautiful pot of flowers were nice decorate!

This is the shot i took when we were walking uphill.

Our destination was Monte Dei Cappuccini, it's a mountain that actually give you another panoramic view beside Mole Antonelliana. This gotta be a better option coz it's totally free! The only thing is you have to walk up to the hill. :)

This is my favourite shot of the day. :)

The location was somewhere around Monte Dei Cappuccini too.

It was a good place for some photography actually, too bad my model (my gf lah) wasnt there.

Tada~ the view from there. Nice nice nice?

Just one shot of all the shots i took..hehehe..

Soon, we went down and this is the view of Fiume Po when we were walking back to the direction of Stazione.

Since it was still early, we decided to walk walk at Vio Garibaldi before we went back.

This is the place that the tourism information counter recommend me for shopping.

and yeah, i bought ice cream (Gelato) at there too. In Italy i bought their ice cream in almost all of my visits. It's very nice! :) Average price was Euro 2.

This is my one day trip to Torino, not bad for this city.

If you have more time in Italy, you should try to visit here too! :)

Regards,

Jing