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Aeroporto di Torino Caselle (Sandro Pertini)
~11.07 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Basilica di Superga
Turin
~16.27 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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The Basilica of Superga is a church in the vicinity of Turin.
It was built from 1717 to 1731 for Victor Amadeus II of Savoy by Filippo Juvarra, at the top of the hill of Superga, to fulfill a vow the duke (and future King of Sardinia) had made during the Battle of Turin. The architect made allusions to different earlier styles while adding a baroque touch. The church contains the tombs of many of the princes and kings of the House of Savoy, including the Monument to Carlo Emanuele III (1733) by Ignazio Collino and his brother Filippo. Under the church are the tombs of the Savoy family, including most of its members (among them, King Charles Albert). This church by Juvarra is considered Late Baroque-Classicism. The dome was completed in 1726 and resembles some elements of Michealangelo's...
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Palatine Towers
Turin
~17.64 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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The Palatine Towers (Italian: Porte Palatine; Piedmontese: Tor Roman-e) is an ancient Roman-medieval structure in Turin, Italy. The structure served as one of four Roman city gates, which allowed access from north to the cardus maximus, the typical second main street of a Roman town. They are located near the Duomo di Torino and Palazzo Reale.
In its current appearance, the building comprise two polygonal towers, of sixteen sides each, and a central gate. Only the latter is an original Roman structure, the towers having been added in the following years. The merlons are from 1404.
The name Porta Palazzo comes from the Latin Porta Palatii (“gate of the palace”), referring to the connected Imperial Palace, which housed numerous historical figures, including the Lombard kings and Charlemagn...
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Cappella SS. Sindone
Turin
~17.72 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Guarino Guarini's SS. Sindone Chapel and its relic offer the occasion to contemplate the paradox of the Incarnation in architecture--a dialectic of presence and absence. The thesis begins with a return to the Gospel accounts of the Empty Tomb, and examines the tradition of reliquary and martyria which the Chapel is inscribed in. The Incarnation theme is then traced to the late seventeenth century context of the Chapel and is considered in the Counter-Reformation context of Turin. The architectural organization of the theme of presence and absence is then explored in the Chapel. In Part II, an examination of Architettura Civile, Guarini's treatise on architecture, seeks to understand the theory of parallel projection (ortografia) with regards to the Chapel's themes. In the last stage Guarin...
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Palazzo Reale
Turin
~17.73 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Royal Palace of Turin or Palazzo Reale, is a palace in Turin, northern Italy. It was the royal palace of the House of Savoy. It was modernised greatly by the French born Madama Reale Christine Marie of France (1606-1663) in the seventeenth century. The palace was worked on by Filippo Juvarra.
In the reign of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528-1580), the site was once part of an old Bishops palace in the center of the new capital of Savoy, Turin. From this palace, the Duke was able to monitor the two entrances of the city - the Palatine and Pretoria gates. The old palace in Turin was thus abandoned and had previously been the residence of the French Viceroys of Savoy who were appointed by Francis I of France having captured Savoy 1536. Opposite the bishops palace was the Palazzo Vec...
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Royal Gardens (Giardini Reali)
Turin
~17.73 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (Duomo di San Giovanni)
Turin
~17.73 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Turin Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Torino) is the major church of Turin, northern Italy. Dedicated to Saint John the Baptist (Italian San Giovanni Battista), it was built during 1491-1498 and it is adjacent to an earlier campanile (1470). The Chapel of the Holy Shroud, the current resting place of the Shroud of Turin, was added to the structure in 1668-1694.
The church lies in the place where the theatre of the ancient Roman city was located. The original Christian sacred house included three churches, dedicated to the Holy Saviour, Saint Mary of Dopno and, the main of three, St. John the Baptist. According to some sources, the latter's consecration was carried on by Agilulf, the Lombard King of northern Italy from 591 to 613[1]. Here, in 662, Garibald, Duke of Torino was assassinated i...
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Palazzo Chiablese
Turin
~17.75 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Turin Royal Palace (Palazzo Reale)
Turin
~17.75 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Royal Palace of Turin or Palazzo Reale, is a palace in Turin, northern Italy. It was the royal palace of the House of Savoy. It was modernised greatly by the French born Madama Reale Christine Marie of France (1606-1663) in the seventeenth century. The palace was worked on by Filippo Juvarra.
In the reign of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528-1580), the site was once part of an old Bishops palace in the center of the new capital of Savoy, Turin. From this palace, the Duke was able to monitor the two entrances of the city - the Palatine and Pretoria gates. The old palace in Turin was thus abandoned and had previously been the residence of the French Viceroys of Savoy who were appointed by Francis I of France having captured Savoy 1536. Opposite the bishops palace was the Palazzo Vec...
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Piazza Statuto
Turin
~17.79 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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This square is found between the end of Via Garibaldi and the beginning of Corso Francia. When walking from Via Garibaldi, you arrive into an ordered square surrounded by 19th century buildings. The flower beds in the middle surround a commemorative monument to the tunnel of Frejus. Beyond the crossroads with Corso San Martino, the layout of the square is much more disordered, comprised of a tangle of traffic lights and routes, with much more modern surrounding buildings.
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Turin Town Hall (Palazzo di Città)
Turin
~17.81 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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In the Piazza Palazzo di Città, formerly known as Piazza delle Erbe, is the town hall, with a very simple facade, which was built in the second half of the 17th century. Both inside and outside, the portico there are several 19th century statues dedicated to various notables of the city. The extreme right of the Palazzo is made up of the base of a tower which was never finished. In the centre of the square is the Monument to the Conte Verde, Pelagio Pelagi.
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Royal Library
Turin
~17.83 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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The Royal Library of Turin is a important museum in Turin, Italy. It was started by King Charles Albert of Sardinia in 1839. Now it has 187,987 print volumes, 4,403 hand-written volumes (manuscripts), 3,000 drawings, 188 books made before 1501 (incunabula), 5,029 books from the sixteenth century, 20,987 pamphlets, and many engravings and maps. These works come mainly from collections from Savoy. The most important antique is a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. This self-portrait is in an underground vault that is resistant to fires, earthquakes, and even airplane crashes.
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Turin Palazzo Madama
Turin
~17.88 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Palazzo Madama e Casaforte degli Acaja is a palace in Turin, northern Italy.
At the beginning of the first century BC, the site of the palace was occupied by a gate in the Roman walls from which the decumanus maximus of Augusta Taurinorum (the ancient name of Turin) departed. Two of the towers, although restored, still testify to this original nucleus. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the gate was used as a fortified stronghold in the defences of the city.
Later the building became a possession of the Savoia-Acaja, a secondary branch of the House of Savoy; in the early fourteenth century, they enlarged it into a castle. A century later Ludovico of Acaja rebuilt it in square shape, with an inner court and a portico, and four cylindrical towers at each corner. The form of th...
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Mole Antonelliana
Turin
~17.88 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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The Mole Antonelliana is a major landmark of the Italian city of Turin. It is named for the architect who built it, Alessandro Antonelli. Construction began in 1863 and was completed 26 years later, after the architect's death. Nowadays it houses the National Museum of Cinema, and it is believed to be the tallest museum in the world.
The building was conceived and constructed as a synagogue. The Jewish community of Turin had enjoyed full civil rights since 1848, and at the time the construction of the synagogue began, Turin was the capital of the new Italian State, a position it held only from 1860-64. The community, with a budget of 250,000 lira and the intention of having a building worthy of a capital city, hired Antonio Antonelli. Antonelli was notable for having recently added an "id...
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National Cinema Museum (Museo Nazionale del Cinema)
Turin
~17.89 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Traveller Description: Featuring a mix of distinctive Italian architectural sytles, this former synagogue now houses the National Film Museum.
Attraction type: Speciality museum, Landmark/point of interest, Architectural building, Museum
info@museonazionaledelcinema.org
Address: Via Montebello, 20 10124
Turin, Italy
Tel: 39 011 8138 560
Fax: 39 011 812 57 38
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University of Turin (Università degli Studi di Torino, UNITO)
Turin
~17.95 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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The University of Turin (Italian Università degli Studi di Torino, or often abbreviated to UNITO) is a university in the city of Turin in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy. It is considered the 4th most important university in Italy.
The University of Turin was founded as a studium in 1404, under the initiative of Prince Ludovico di Savoia. From 1427 to 1436 the seat of the university was transferred to Chieri and Savigliano. It was closed in 1536, and reestablished by Duke Emmanuel Philibert thirty years later. It started to gain its modern shape following the model of the University of Bologna, although significant development did not occur until the reforms made by Victor Amadeus II, who also created the Collegio delle Province for students not natives of Turin.
With the re...
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Palazzo Carignano
Turin
~18.00 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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The Palazzo Carignano (Carignan Palace) is a historical building in the centre of Turin which currently houses the Museum of the Risorgimento. It was once a private residence of the Princes of Carignan, after who it is named after. It is famous for its unique rounded façade. It is located on the Via Accademia delle Scienze.
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Stazione Porta Susa
Turin
~18.01 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Piazza Carlo Alberto
Turin
~18.04 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Piazza Carlo Alberto is a northern Catania flea market.
Hobbies & Activities category: Market, shopping area
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Egyptian Museum (Museo Egizio)
Turin
~18.06 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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The Museo Egizio is a museum in Turin, Italy, specialising in Egyptian archaelogy and anthropology. It houses the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In 2006 it received 554,911 visitors.
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Galleria Sabauda
Turin
~18.06 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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The Sabauda Gallery (Italian: Galleria Sabauda) is an art collection in Turin, Italy, which contains the royal art collections amassed by the House of Savoy over the centuries.
The Gallery is presently located on Via Accademia delle Scienze 6, on the second floor, though there are plans to relocate it to one of the palaces of the former royal family in the future.
The collection unites the works from the Royal Palace of Turin, the picture gallery of the Savoy-Carignan, and the artworks from the Palazzo Durazzo of Genoa, acquired in 1824. Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy commissioned the brothers Zuccari to design the gallery. In October 2, 1832, King Carlo Alberto of Savoy inaugurated the royal gallery containting 365 paintings. The collection was transferred in 1865 to the Palazzo dell'Accadem...
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Galleria San Federico
Turin
~18.08 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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A stylish Turin passageway.
This T-shaped gallery links the Via Roma, the Via Votti and the Via Santa Teresa. It was constructed in the 1930's when the Via Roma was being re-developed. This is an elegant-looking, marble passageway in which you'll find a series of shops and a cinema.
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Palazzo dal Pozzo della Cisterna
Turin
~18.11 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Giant's Tooth (Il Dente del Gigante)
Turin
~18.15 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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A 26-foot-tall monument built to decorate a main square of Turin, Italy, for the Winter Olympics was built with lights from GE and with Lexan, a product made at GE Plastics in Mount Vernon.
"A good hunk of that plastic started here," said Kim Derk, a spokeswoman for the Mount Vernon plant.
In fact, about 958 square yards of Lexan Margard thermoplastic has gone into the sculpture, known as Il Dente del Gigante (The Tooth of the Giant), which has been placed in the Piazza.
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Santa Cristina
Turin
~18.19 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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The church of Santa Cristina was built on the request of Madama Reale, Maria Cristina, in 1639 on the project of Carlo di Castellamonte. The facade erected between 1715 and 1718, is the work of Juvarra. It has one nave and is rather simple in style, but the chapel dedicated to San Giuseppe and Santa Cristina. It has been built on the side of Via Roma in front of the church of San Carlo. These two sister churches stand out on the south side of the piazza.
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City Centre Turin
Turin
~18.20 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Gran Madre Church
Turin
~18.20 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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If you cross the Po on the Piazza Vittorio bridge, you will find yourself directly in front of the Gran Madre di Dio church. It is a scenographic construction in a circular shape, built between 1818 and 1831 to commemmorate the return of Vittorio Emanuele I to Turin on the 20 May 1814. The church houses the remains of 5000 men who fell in the first world war. Note the access staircase with the two statues of Religion and Faith and, inside, the Crucifix and Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Open: Weekdays: 7:30a-noon, 4:30p-7p; Weekends: 7:30a-1p, 3:30p-7p, 8:30p-10p
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Lagrange 15
Turin
~18.24 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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Villa della Regina
Turin
~18.35 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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The Villa della Regina is a palace outside the city of Turin, Italy. It was originally built by the House of Savoy in the 17th century.
The original structure was designed in early 1615 by the Italian soldier, architect and military engineer, Ascanio Vitozzi. He died in 1615 and the project was passed over to his collaborators, father and son Carlo and Amedeo di Castellamonte. The original building was built for the Maurice of Savoy during the reign of his brother Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy. The property was built as a private villa with its own vineyard. In 1637 Cardinal Maurice lost his brother and his sister in law Christine Marie of France became Regent of Savoy for her young son.
Cardinal Maurice and his brother the Prince of Carignan opposed the Regency and fled to Spain. Th...
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Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM)
Turin
~18.53 miles from San Giusto Canavese city center
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The Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM) is an art-lover’s paradise. Displayed here are some of the most important and beautiful photographs, sculptures and paintings of modern times; you will find that they cover varied genres, like Italian Divisionism and Pop Art. GAM has a permanent collection of art work on display by artists such as Massimo D’Azeglio, Fontanesi and Pellizza da Volpedo. From time to time it also provides upcoming artists the opportunity to showcase their art. Recently it opened a video library that boasts of a unique collection of video art, short films, documentaries and other cinematic masterpieces. So, if you’re in Turin, make sure to drop in.
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