Piazza Carignano Turin – An Enchanting Guided Tour
In our Turin tour, Piazza Carignano is unforgettable. Elisabetta Testore, Enjoy Piedmont’s tour guide, accompanies you on this special video tour!
Piazza Castello Turin – A Captivating Guided Tour
The first stop on the “The top 10 things + 1 to see in Turin” tour is Piazza Castello. Elisabetta Testore, Enjoy Piedmont’s tour guide, will host you on this special video tour!
Via Monferrato – The Trendiest Street in Turin
The new frontier of trendy in Turin is Monferrato Street (Via Monferrato in Italian). Take it from someone that for more than 10 years has toured the city in all its nooks and crannies in search of beauty, someone that has experienced entertainment in all its best events, someone that has changed apartments so…
The Reggia of Venaria, or rather, a trip to Paris between gardens and Art Nouveau
If you’re like me, sometimes you just want to escape from everyday life and fly to Paris. But if you can’t spare more than even a day, you’ll be happy to know that you can always find a bit of Paris in Venaria Reale. In barely half-an-hour from Turin by the Venaria Express, you…
Style, Elegance, Made-in-Italy: the 100 Years of Aurora
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…
Contemporary Art and Traditional Flavours: The De Chirico Exhibition at the GAM
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…
Mercato Centrale Torino – Another Must-See Reason to visit Turin’s “Melting Pot”
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…
Coffee is a pleasure, if it isn’t good, what pleasure is it?
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,…
The Captivating Egyptian Museum of Turin, or why does “The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin?”
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…
The Perfect Aperitivo in Turin
Yesterday, in a perfect moment whilst I was enjoying my perfect aperitivo in a perfect place with my perfect husband, I started looking around at all of the people who had the same bright idea as us, enjoying the aperitivo time …. when a question came to mind: How many of these people and…