A great birthday is coming to Turin, it will be in June, the organizers say, but they are not letting out anything else…. This year we celebrate the centenary of a paragon of excellence from Turin. A creator of icons of style and elegance. A company that helped bring the trademark “Made-in-Italy” to the…
To fill a rainy spring day in Turin with colour, there is nothing better than a fine art exhibition. On the 16th of April, the De Chirico exhibition “Neo-metaphysics and contemporary art” was inaugurated at the GAM Torino and is an absolutely must-see event. The GAM Torino itself is one of those Turin museums…
Inaugurated on April 13th, and from this event onwards, going to the market for the people of Turin will never be quite the same. In Porta Palazzo, which has been home to Europe’s largest outdoor market since 1835, the new Mercato Centrale Torino (Turin Central Market in English) was opened, based upon a successful…
For those who don’t know, this was a famous TV commercial slogan for the Italians. It was the 80’s and the Lavazza commercials were effective, recognizable, and enjoyable, even for us children who in reality didn’t even care about coffee … At that time Lavazza, which was already a well-established, well-known and well-loved brand,…
When I lead tour groups around the city of Turin and we arrive in front of the seventeenth-century Palace of the Noble College, which now houses the Egyptian Museum, one of the most recurring questions is: “Why is there such an important Egyptian Museum here in Turin?” People are astonished to discover that the…