Our
last two nights were in Turin. On the way we
stopped in a little town called Bra where we visited Agenzia di Pollenzo which
is the home of the slow food movement and was once a house of the Savoy royal
family.
In the historic buildings they also have La Banca del Vino (wine bank), which is host to a museum of over two thousand square meters where they store some of the best wines of Italy. It was huge! Trevor was a little upset when we got to the locked-up section.
Then on to another house of the Savoy on the outskirts of Turin, Palazzina di caccia Stupinigi – built in the eighteenth century as a hunting lodge. Another mind blowing building.
They had mutants in the family. Here was the lobster baby.
Then on to one of Turin’s famous coffee houses for an aperitif.
Breakfast in Turin. Chocolate cake and their famous coffee-chocolate drink, Bicerin (three layers - espresso, drinking chocolate and frothed milk).
Turin market and township.
One of the Baroque churches:
The view over the city from the Mole Antonelliana, once the highest brick building in Europe.
In the historic buildings they also have La Banca del Vino (wine bank), which is host to a museum of over two thousand square meters where they store some of the best wines of Italy. It was huge! Trevor was a little upset when we got to the locked-up section.
Then on to another house of the Savoy on the outskirts of Turin, Palazzina di caccia Stupinigi – built in the eighteenth century as a hunting lodge. Another mind blowing building.
Then on to one of Turin’s famous coffee houses for an aperitif.
Breakfast in Turin. Chocolate cake and their famous coffee-chocolate drink, Bicerin (three layers - espresso, drinking chocolate and frothed milk).
Turin market and township.
One of the Baroque churches:
The view over the city from the Mole Antonelliana, once the highest brick building in Europe.
