| Page Views: 2,103 Last Visit to Torino: January, 2005 | Torino by Mikebond - last update: Aug 15, 2008 |
A great city with few tourists An Italian who is planning a trip to Torino is often asked "Have you got any relatives living there?", as it was the case when I told to someone I was going to spend some days in that city for 2005 New Year's Day. Unfortunately tourists do not consider Torino enough, and the 2006 Winter Olympics didn't help so much: the fourth biggest Italian city is always implicitely associated to immigration and FIAT factories. It is true that many people, especially from Southern Italian regions, went to live there in the past decades, which explains why now there are (almost) more Southern people than locals; however, this phaenomenon and the huge amount of factories should not make you think that Torino is not a worth visiting city. Instead, it is very beautiful and despite its million inhabitants, you don't feel as in a metropole thanks to the wide streets, the many pedestrian boulevards and so on. |
| the lighting of the Olypic brazier |
|  | Torino 2006 20th Olympic Winter Games The 20th Olympic Winter Games started in Torino on 10th February 2006 with a great opening ceremony and finished on 26th February. This event has had and is going to have a major impact on Torino, especially for the several tourists who visited the city. It was the occasion for upgrading the city infrastructures and Torino returned the "Italian capital city" for a fortnight after becoming the first capital city of the new-born Italian Kingdom on 1861. |
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| Pros: | "it has very wide boulevards and streets for pedestrians" | | Cons: | "I didn't see the local people" | | In A Nutshell: | "a real surprise!" |
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Kuznetsov_Sergey Fri Feb 27, 2009 18:04 UTC Wonderfful city, excellent page, Michele! Pity I haven't been there, may be one day I'll come back to Italy... | volopolo Thu Oct 9, 2008 14:21 UTC Excellent information and pictures | cold_dead_bunny Thu May 1, 2008 13:52 UTC Hey, had checked your postcards at Flickr! They are deffinatly cuter then mine! Btw, I wish so much now be in sunny Italy... so miss it. Ehhhh | Laura_Mexico Wed Apr 16, 2008 02:37 UTC Hey Michele!! Tante grazie degli auguri :) Espero que estes pasando una bonita primavera! Hasta pronto! :) |
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