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Turin, in the heart of Piemonte, has always been a capital: of the Savoy family, of Italy, of the Alps, of publishing, of industry. A very elegant city that gave birth to the first marketable hard chocolate and Italy's most iconic car, the Fiat 500 - and also gave hospitality to the most important figures in European culture. Visionary architects and enlightened entrepreneurs made it great and beautiful and the city is now booming with contemporary art, live music, museums, and innovative food and wine culture. This guide will reveal you 111 different faces of Turin: places, flavours, shades, and people.
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Alessandro Martini (Turino, 1972) is an architectural historian, journalist and professor at Politecnico di Torino. Promoter of the Museum Online of Turin his editor-in-chief for Il Giornale dell’Arte.Maurizio Francesconi (Turin, 1974) is a fashion historian, journalist and professor of history of fashion design and semiotics of fashion at IED in Turin. They live in Turin and for Emons they are authors of 111 Places in Turin You Shouldn’t Miss.
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Turin, in the heart of Piemonte, has always been a capital: of the Savoy family, of Italy, of the Alps, of publishing, of industry. A very elegant city that gave birth to the first marketable hard chocolate and Italy’s most iconic car, the Fiat 500 – and also gave hospitality to the most important figures in European culture. Visionary architects and enlightened entrepreneurs made it great and beautiful and the city is now booming with contemporary art, live music, museums, and innovative food and wine culture. This guide will reveal you 111 different faces of Turin: places, flavours, shades, and people.
