Torino: A New York Times Suggestion

This is a special post dedicated to the New York Times article "36 Hours in Turin" about Torino and how to spend a wonderful weekend here.

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Questo è uno specialissimo post dedicato all'articolo del New York Times "36 Ore A Torino" sulla nostra città e come spendere qui un bellissimo weekend.

Museums, What A Passion! Palazzo Madama Edition

I can finally write the first post of the section "The Turinist", a mix of two words Turin and tourist. I'm very excited because I'm in love with Torino since I was a little girl and I'd like to share the places, the museum, the streets I know with who have never seen this city before or just arrived to live here. 

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Posso finalmente scrivere il primo post della rubrica "The Turinist", un neologismo creato da due parole Turin e tourist. Sono molto emozionata perchè sono innamorata di Torino da quando ero bambina e mi piacerebbe condividere i luoghi, i musei, le strade che conosco con chi non ha mai visto questa città prima oppure è appena arrivato a viverci.

 

Today I'm gonna tell you about Palazzo Madama a huge building in the center of Turin (Piazza Castello) that hosts Ancient Art collections. There are two paths to follow: the rooms and their ambiance first of all, and the works of art then. Medieval lapidary, Baroque rooms, 17th and 18th century paintings and sculptures, ceramics, ivory, goldsmith's art, textiles... The most part of the works are from the region of Piedmont. These works are displayed on 4 floors. The underground one hosts (in the outside) the Gardens where several types of Medieval and Ancient garden are shown. When you reached the 4th floor, in a corner behind a door you find an elevator that brings you up to the top of the Siege Tower to see a beautiful scenic view of Torino.

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Oggi vi parlerò di Palazzo Madama un grande edificio proprio nel centro di Torino (Piazza Castello) che ospita le collezioni del Museo Civico D'Arte Antica. Avete a disposizione due percorsi: le stanze e la loro atmosfera prima di tutto, e le opere d'arte di diversi periodi poi. Lapidario Medievale, le ambientazioni barocche, le opere del Sei e del Settecento, le ceramiche, gli avori, le oreficerie, i tessuti... La maggior parte delle opere provengono dalla regione Piemonte e dintorni. La mostra è disposta su 4 livelli. Nel piano interrato possiamo trovare all'esterno i Giardini Del Castello dove sono mostrate diverse tipologie di orti e giardini Medievali. Quando, invece, avete raggiunto il Quarto piano, in un angolo dietro ad una porta troverete un ascensore che vi porterà alla cima della Torre D'Assalto del Castello per vedere una bellissima veduta panoramica di Torino.

 

 

The "Sarà l'Italia" exhibit concluded Saturday. The reproduction of the first Italian Senate House was built for the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy, occurred last year. Many events and conferences took place here and 236.839 people visited it in 9 months.

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La mostra  "Sarà l'Italia" si è conclusa sabato. La riproduzione del primo Senato italiano è stata creata per il 150esimo Anniversario dell'Unità d'Italia, avvenuta l'anno scorso. In questo particolare spazio hanno preso parte molti eventi e conferenze; ed inoltre 236.839 persone l'anno visitato nel corso dei 9 mesi d'apertura al pubblico.

 

Unavoidable stop: Caffé Madama (First Floor). You can have few moments of relax in front of Turin specialties. Glass windows let the light come in smoothly and it remains a perfect atmosphere to share with your friends.

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Tappa inevitabile: il Caffé Madama (Primo Piano). Qui potete trovare un po' di relax di fronte alle specialità torinesi. Le vetrate lasciano entrare la luce dolcemente creando così un'atmosfera perfetta da condividere con gli amici.

 

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From now on I will write no more about my American exchange program but if somebody wants to know something in particular just ask, I will be glad to be useful!
Now, I'm going to show you the topics I plan on doing weekly:

GLOBETROTTER MONDAY

Travels Column

or

News From The World

PRYING WEDNESDAY

Bright People Room

or

Hip To Be Square

or

Going Wild With Music

REVELER WEEKEND

Event Of The Week

or

The "Turinist" 

On Monday we are always sad. We have to go working/studying and the weekend seems so far away, so why don't think about travels or foreign countries where we would like to go by reading trips or tours taken in different places or odd news coming from the rest of the world?

On Wednesday we are in the linchpin of the week. We have stuff to do, business to arrange, events to join and people to see. We are charging up for the weekend and that's why we are more friendly and snoopy. 

On this special day I prepared for you three sections: the first one (Bright People Room) is about people I already know or I might encounter who are smart and brilliant; the second one (Hip To Be Square) talks about trends or society, something that used to be uncool and now it's awesome or it's going to be very popular soon; the last one is about music (Going Wild With Music), this is a very important section to me because I can share with you a song I listened lately, a concert I joined or something related to the music universe.

On the weekend we spend day and night being wild and thoughtless. We usually don't have specific plans and we just want to have fun! That's why I thought about all of you revelers and I dedicated this day to you! 

For what concerns the topic "Event of the week" I may talk about: a specific event happened during the week, a club/wine-cocktail bar/restaurant that impressed me for some reason, a personal occurrence. 

The "Turinist" is a new word that I coined blending together two words: TURIN + TOURIST. My purpose is to describe something about Torino (as museums, streets, places, fairs, exhibitions, etc.) to give the chance to the people who don't know it to discover how much Torino is beautiful.