Torino - One City, One Destination

1, A little scattered and Torino in particular and Italy in general.

Often when visiting the city, we would have a list of places to visit such as museums, castles or palaces, historical monuments or enjoy delicious specialities in the land. I saved it.

However, in this Italian and Greek tour, there is a city that I just visited for a single destination! It is the city of Torino.

Turin or Torino is a city located on the western edge of Italian capital Savoy, which borders France and Switzerland. If we go back to history, Torino is the least Italian city in Italy. Torino is the capital of the Kingdom of Turin.

Travel in my historical eyes

Saying that if I split up into many countries in the cultural area of history, then I will divide it into four of the four largest:

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The Kingdom of Naples consists of Naples and the Italian South Coast.

Venice Kingdom in the North East

The Kingdom of Savoy (Turin) in the North West

Small kingdoms in central Italy such as Tuscany (Florence), Papal (Rome), Milan (Milano)

In summary, Italy is one of the oldest established countries in Europe, despite its long history, which had a major influence on all of Europe under the Roman era, I must admit that Rome is only ruins or ruins giant (according to the Nam Le architectural architecture in Milan)

After the splendor of Italy's splendid Roman empire, it was divided into small states, invaded, ruled, and scrambled for influence among the great powers of Europe, especially the Spanish, Austrian and France.

This is actually somewhat difficult to say is that the ruling or invaded by the type as the Spanish royal family to Italy ruled king as King of Italy is always there.

In general I can only say that I have two friends: an Italian guy and a Spanish guy, and they can talk to each other in their mother tongue and still understand each other. say what ever?

Moreover, I also feel that the Spanish-Italian culture, language and lifestyle are very similar. Spain, which was ruled by the Romans, ruled the Romans in such a way.

What does Torino have?

I will return to Torino, Italy's first capital of unification in 1861, after which the capital left for the Renaissance city of Florence (Firenze) to return to Rome.

Torino is famous for chocolate, Firenze is famous for its wine.

I would like to open up with your favorite Belgian or Swiss chocolate is to discover that Italy is the cradle of art is also the cradle of cuisine, chocolate or wine are derived from Italy.

In Torino there is the largest Egyptian museum in Italy, with a beautiful park and the Mole Antonelliana tower built by the Italian Jewish business community. Today, the building houses the National Italian Cinema Museum and offers panoramic views across the city.

At the time of its completion, Mole Antonelliana was the tallest brick building in the world. Currently, the National Cinema Museum of Italy is the highest museum in the world.

In addition, I would like to introduce an important part of Turin's ancient, historical, cultural, and architectural artistry that is worthy of interest. Numerous museums of the city that visitors can visit include:

the Egyptian Museum, also known as the Museo Egizio,

the National Cinema Museum opened in 2000,

the Savoyard Gallery or Call the Galleria Sabauda,

the Carignano Palace Museum of Art,

the Palazzo Madama Art Museum or the Museo Civico di Arte Antica di Palazzo Madama with about 70, 000 artifacts on display,

the Museum of Contemporary Art - Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,

Ruffia Carlo Automobile Museum,

Medieval Village Museum.

Torino - Potential Destination

Torino is not a world-famous tourist destination so surely many of my friends have ever been to Italy, no one ever comes to this city.

Visitors to Italy are fascinated by a series of names much more attractive:

Rome, the city is dubbed as the capital of the world, with majestic beauty and strong; It seems that people can still feel here the power of the Roman Empire; Venezia (Venice) with unique beauty, romance and beauty;

Firenze (Florence) with the beauty of creativity, wisdom and culture, the cradle of the European revival movement, where many of the world's cultural celebrities came from. If people usually like Venezia as beautiful as a princess in fairy tales, Firenze is attributed to the beauty of a prince...

Napoli - with famous landmarks: Sorrento (Suriento), Santa Lucia, Pompei...;

Sicily with the relics of Hyla civilization combined, with volcanic Etna majestic and with... mafia;

Verona with the immortal love of Romeo and Juliet;

Siena with the famous ancient architecture;

Milano - the city of fashion and commerce...;

Even the small town of Pisa, Galieo's hometown, has become famous thanks to the beautiful leaning tower and... unlike anyone.

Next to such charming cities, it seems that my Torino does not attract much attention. However, I repeat once again that this is the first unified capital of Italy.

General Information about Torino

In my free time, I had a chance to find out about Torino and find a lot of interesting information. According to a tradition widely circulated, Torino was formed by the ancient Egyptians: "One day, the Egyptian Prince Eridano crossed the Mediterranean to look for new fertile lands. Crossing the Appenini Range, he encountered a fertile plain on a large river, reminding him of the native Nil River... So on that land an Egyptian community was formed with Egyptian beliefs and practices, especially those of Menfi. " It is said that prince Eridano, in an accidental discharge of a riverboat, had fallen into water and drowned himself in that river. ("Maybe he's a little too drunk, or maybe he's trying to prove that the steering wheel is so good! " From that day, the name of the river was named after the unhappy prince, Eridanus. Unfortunately, this mythical name has been lost. There was a river named Padam because of the river birch birch, then the name was cut short just short: Po and no meaning at all.

According to the Roman chronicles, in 218 BC, Annibale (Hainan) suddenly attacked Rome with a hard-hitting path: crossing the Alpi range. The village of Eridanus, Taurasia, was destroyed by the Annibale. This is Torino's first appearance in history. It is likely that after this incident, the land of Taurasia was noticed, it was recognized as a strategically important position with military and economic views. In the time of Giulio Cesare, this area became a military base. In 69, Julia Augusta, formed a small town called Taurinorum.

In 1864, Torino faced a new crisis when the capital was transferred to Firenze. But with the advent of new industries, especially the automobile industry, the city of the North West has a new attraction, the ability to satisfy jobs for a large number of people.

At the end of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century, the development of the city was difficult to control due to the rapid population growth (the highest point was about 1. 4 million)

But with the right policies and measures, Torino still retains the stability of the scale as well as its characteristic features.

Today, Torino is the capital of the Piedmont region, Italy's fifth largest city with a population.

As far as I know, Turin's other attractions are equally attractive to magnificent buildings and large museums, including the lush Valentine's Park, Po Street on the peaceful Po River, the Imperial Theater The Royal Theater, City Hall Square, Mount Monks Capuchin is nearly 300m high with excellent panoramic views of Turin, or Lingotto Palace as a palace built in 1920, the Church of Santa Cristina, or Palatine Door as A gate leading visitors back to the Roman era with the walls and fortress horns.

However, like the title Torino - a city, a destination!

I visited another masterpiece in Torino, which is located 10km from the center of Torino. Palace of Venaria di Venaria - Palace of Venaria.

2. Credits with Instagram picture.

During my time in Europe, imagine that I could go from one trip to another without being "saturated", the motivation for traveling is very important.

For me it is photography, I follow many beautiful photography pages on the Instagram to find beautiful scenery about Europe.

Then one day Reggia di Venaria appeared.

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The picture of the white palace, long lasting endless! A beautiful photo that from the first time I saw say I have to release the heart and screencapture.

The picture of a white palace corridor resembles that of the King's Cross Station at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, so I can not help but look at the picture again and again.

I first used google search and discovered a place outside the Italian city of Turin.

I learned that Reggia Di Venaria is a haunting palace in the mountains of Turin, which is the ancient palace of the royal kingdom of Turin. Turn off your smartphone to sleep! I tell myself:

Hoang, you will have to go to Torino!

It's March 22, 2017!

3. 1h30 finally get into the hostel.

On the night of April 16th, after a six-hour bus ride from Veniza to Turin, I was in central Torino, the bus did not drop us at the garage, but dropped me off at a road that was in the middle. city center.

My phone did not have internet, then at 11:15 in Italy, I found a way from the bus station to the hostel, which is across the city from the last minute while sitting on the flixbus, but sadly because I took time to get the car to get us so the data bus from the car to the hostel but saved in my smartphone has disappeared.

From the bus station to the hostel about 5 km, so I keep going towards the hostel hoping to catch free wifi. While in Turin there are wifi for tourists, unfortunately unfortunately the Italian phone number is required to receive the code.

I struggled to walk in the darkness last night I went to the central station, but at the time of the infidelity, everything was close, not to mention this is the Easter holidays. Fortunately, though the underground station was closed, after running in front of the back of the station, I caught a glimpse of the station's free wifi, typing quickly. Oh, luckily, I can connect without entering code from my phone.

Jump on the bus to go to the hostel, clean up, go...

The night bus is as fast as a hurricane, with only a few passengers climbing the bus that you imagine drivers still have to drive all the stops. Anyway, I'm tired of hunger and my only wish is to get to the hostel, I'll cook Lasagna instant noodles in Venice.

- Hoang on the upcoming baby!

12h30 I finally got to the front door and....

The hostel door has already closed

It's closed already! - Close your mother fucker!

The hostel was closed even more, it was clearly not open to strangers. I press the door bell, hammer the door, kick the door. Still no voices answered.

My 24 euros, because of late booking so the hostel price I located in Turin quite expensive 24 euros. O hu hu just one night that early morning 11am have to check out.

Very tired, afraid of losing money, I went to the automatic vending machine nearby buy a bottle of water, open the bottle of water to drink.

Dammit it! Love vl. I bought the wrong water gas bottle, so I fly another 1. 5 euros into the trash!

I walked back and forth, the street was empty, the store was closed long ago because of the holidays, I determined to sleep tonight as homeless! Then there are some black men passing by, just rotten, hands and feet tattooed. I was more afraid.

So I checked my booking on the phone, and I noticed a new message at the booking of the message sent to Yahoo. I hurriedly emailed Yahoo to check the messages.

"Dear HOANG,

We appreciate your choice and hope you will have a good experience in Bamboo Eco Hostel.

The payment was successfully done, the access to the hostel was made using electronic pin codes.

Your personal pin code to open the front door is 9565A (5 digits);

Please protect it, to ensure the safety of the Bamboo Eco Hostel and its clients. This code will work only during the period of your stay, from 15:00 on arrival until 11:00 am on departure.

Once you are inside you will find your keys on the front desk, one for the front door and one for the locker on the same keychain.

The color of your room is BLUE (Upstairs) and your bed and locker are the NUMBER 4. "" "

What's the hell? My life has just been saved!

Oh, good luck! I usually turn off the notification mode at Yahoo, because I have not used Yahoo for a long time, just as every day I get a few spam messages in Yahoo. However, due to the registration of booking.com account through yahoo so I receive the confirmation message of booking.com in Yahoo. Because it is all confirmed information so it is not very care.

I hastily knocked 9565A into the door lock and the headline, doors,

Oh, great, cold night, hungry, thirsty and tired end!

I opened the door to the reception room, everything was quiet, the first thing that hit my eyes was a small kitchen. Do not go up the room, do not want to wash, I go to cook, hungry sml rùi.

4, Venaria Palace - Complete the mission.

The next morning, after a good night's sleep and eating a full meal of tomato noodles and tomatoes, I prepared a direct voyage to Venaria. It took 45 minutes by bus from the center of Turin and I also reached the Stazione di Venaria Reale, from this bus stop to reach the Venaria Palace I will have to walk more 2 km.

From here I rushed to Piazza Vittorio in the middle of the square with statue of a heroic hero from World War I!

Then I went on until I went through the Piazza della SS. Anunizata, is a small square.

Piazza della SS Anunizata

Small square Piazza della SS. Annunziata, because Venaria Palace was the palace to hunt so the area was built leaning on the Apls mountains, I can imagine this is a small town built on the side of the Apls. Beside the Venaria Palace you can see the pretty little church of Chiesa dell 'Anunizata in the corner.

Little Chiesa dell' Anunizata Church

The reconstruction of the church Chiesa dell 'Anunizata the eighteenth century gave the church a late-Baroque appearance, in which the influence of the French classicism of the 17th and 18th centuries was felt. Outside this is evident in the façade, characterized by a slightly concave pattern and adorned with two overlapping orders of classical columns. On the left side of the church is preserved the mighty sixteenth-century bell tower.

From a distance, I can see the main gate of the Venaria Palace - Reggia Di Venaria gradually emerging, the Turin area in the past was war in the world war, especially the palace of Reggia Di Venaria was fascist-occupied and transformed into a military camp by terrain, close to the center of Torino, looking at both sides I can see some bullet holes on the walls

As a popular sightseeing spot, but Reggia Di Venaria can only pick up a certain amount, so to visit without having to queue the booking is a priority. Fortunately I booked from last month so, just take the ticket is to go through the gate.

A very VIP feeling!

The vast Venetian Palace, transformed into a Nazi barrack, is now filled with works of art and became an art center of Italy after I deposited and scanned the ticket. overwhelmed by the gallery of exotic Italian paintings 1000 years ago.

Torino - the first capital of unificated Italy

Turin, Torino, an independent kingdom with a small royal family in the middle of Italy and France, Turin himself was independent for hundreds of years before Italy's unification. Turin became the first capital of independent Italy. The Turin royal family had to fight against the French and Italian expansion.

Ceilling in a room at the Reggia Di Venaria palace

Reggia Di Venaria Palace has a French influence with a very large flower garden, looking farther to the Apls.

green park!

Like the contemporaries of the time, a pionium embellished the art of the royal family.

In general, the palace of Reggia Di Venaria is very large, including many art rooms of history, contemporary art, including modern new ways of spreading the art of light.

Going further, I finally got to where I needed to go!

(to be continued)

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