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Presents a travel guide to Turin, Italy, providing region-by-region information, including details on its history, landscape, sites to see, lodgings, and restaurants, and provides color photos, maps, and cutaway illustrations throughout.
City Maps Turin Italy is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities and the list goes on and on. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city. This city map is a must if you wish to enjoy the city without internet connection.
Do you like to discover new charming cities? So welcome to Turin, the capital of Piedmont, in Italy, a beautiful city full of history, culture and great treasures to discover! Do you want to discover some history, meet warm people and enjoy a tasty and varied gastronomy? Do you like architecture? Then, Turin and its region will make the ideal destination whether for a weekend or a whole week! In fact, we hope that our guide will prove it to you. Read at your own pace and flip through photos, sites or your interests. We have been traveling all around the world since our studenthood and have visited more than 50 countries so far. We love to find convenient and affordable travel solutions in or...
An NPR Best Book of the Year Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut. In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightl...
A social history detailing the relationship between the ruling class and the poor as found in the records of a poorhouse/hospital in 18th century Turin. Over 5000 of the poorest of the poor speak for themselves in the notes of the admitting clerk. The study is sited in Turin, capital of Piedmont, the only Italian province that was ruled by a king. The institution operated under royal charter; therefore, it was secular, not run by the Catholic Church. This work should be of interest to those studying early Italian history and the sociology of public welfare programs.
This is a guide to Turin, for a visit lasting two, three or more days. There are extensive descriptions and photos of the attractions: museums, churches, nightlife and other attractions. It contains reviews of places where to eat. The guide is divided in sections covering single days or half days, so you can combine several sections depending on the length of your stay and your preference of what o see.
* The ultimate insider's guide to Turin * Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides * Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 250 titles and 1.5 million copies in print worldwide * Appeals to both the local market (nearly 900,000 people call Turin home) and the tourist market (more than 3.7 million people visit Turin every year!) * Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs An aristocratic and blue-collar town, a technological and esoteric site, it's easy to get lost in Turin's well-ordered boulevards that gently follow the Po river. You will find warm and sweet shelter in its Art Nouveau cafés or be astonished by the ...