The capital of the Piedmont region and metropolitan city, Turin is Italy’s fourth largest city by population and the country’s third largest economic-productive complex. It is one of Italy’s major university, artistic, tourist, scientific, gastronomic and cultural centers.
The circuit of Savoy residences in Piedmont and the area of the Po Hills are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Turin, considered one of the greenest in Europe, is a city of unique charm halfway between 19th-century sobriety and luxury and the vitality of a modern, young and dynamic metropolis.
First the capital of Italy and then also the capital of automobiles and cinema, the Piedmontese capital is rich in palaces symbolic of its history. Imposing residences and religious buildings including the Duomo where the Holy Shroud is kept.
Museums include the Egyptian Museum, second only to the one in Cairo, the Rivoli Castle, the Reggia di Venaria and the Mole Antonelliana, symbol of the city and also home to the Cinema Museum.
