Torino offers to the tourists more than 40 cultural sites to visit including castles, royal esidences and museums. Do not miss the Egyptian Museum, the National Museum of Cinema and the renewed Automobile Museum. Although Milan hogs the commercial spotlight these days, Turin has a palpably industrious spirit. This is the home of Italy’s car industry, its first cinema, and arguably chocolate; it’s the place in which vermouth and Nutella were invented, and it gave birth to the Slow Food movement. The Romans drew the neat grid of streets on which Turin’s layout is based, later layered with wide avenues and grand squares, such as the Piazza Vittoria, where the Torinese mingle over aperitifs. Cradled by the rivers Dora to the north and Po to the east, the Alps on the northern horizon providing a constant compass point, Turin is an eminently walkable city, made all the more pleasant by the 11 miles of arcades to stroll through. The city has a rich culture and history, being known for its numerous art galleries, restaurants, churches, palaces, opera houses, piazzas, parks, gardens, theatres, libraries, museums and other venues. Turin is well known for its Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neo-classical, and Art Nouveau architecture. Many of Turin’s public squares, castles, gardens and elegant palazzi such as the Palazzo Madama, were built between the 16th and 18th centuries. A part of the historical center of Turin was inscribed in the World Heritage List under the name Residences of the Royal House of Savoy.
