What Makes Turin Historical Center a Great Place?
Being the center of Turin City, it is obviously well connected by scores of public transportation lines. The very best way to get here anyway is the stroll under the archways. Turin hosted the Olympic Games in February of 2006, and awarded the medals in Piazza Castello. There is a lot to do here, both for tourists and residents. In the northwest corner of Piazza Castello lies the Turin romantic Cathedral that holds the Holy Shroud. In the northeast corner lies The Teatro Regio, the Turinese Opera House. The Royal Library’s collection includes also the Leonardo Da Vinci Self Portrait. For shopping lovers, under the Archway you can find any “shopping target” you can imagine. A few meters away from these piazzas, there are a lot of world-class museums. In normal days, it is crowded by Turinese people as a place where to socialize, but in recent years the rate of tourists has been very significantly increasing. During the Olympic Games, it was so crowded it was very difficult to simply ent
