Torino is the correct
Italian name for
Turin. It is the capital of the
Piedmonte region of
northern Italy. It is located on the
River Po and is atypical of Italian cities as it is laid out on a grid. When the Savoy's rulled here people spoke
French.
Home to
FIAT and the
Shroud of Turin, as well as the largest outdoor market in
Europe,
Porta Pallazo.
Torino is the former seat of the Piedmont Kingdom which unified
Italy in the 1860s. Also where the Italian film, automobile and telecomunications industries began.
Torino will play host to the 2006
Winter Olympics. And is home to Italy's
soccer teams
Juventus (which has won the most national championships of all the teams in the country) and Torino (which is the
Chicago Cubs of Italian soccer).
The city's coat of arms displays a bull rising on it's hind legs and snorting...