Buildings Around Piazza Arbarello

Piazza Arbarello is another piazza with buildings forming an interesting view, it has been renovated which removed the carpark at one end of the piazza and transformed it into a play ground with vegetables and flowers planted at one entrance of the play ground.

Too bad the other end of the piazza is still occupied by a huge carpark and trasportations still passing through the piazza.....

Murazzi Pier

Here is once where the 'Valentino' and 'Valentina' parked while waiting for the tourists to aboard for the cruise along the river Po.

Since after last year disaster, the flooded river brought away the two ships and they ended up crashing against the bridge, they have been towed away.
Now all left is this empty pier....

Majestic Arcade

The view of the arcade  of palazzo Carignano is majestic.....

The Palazzo Carignano is a historical building in the centre of Turin, Italy, which houses the Museum of the Risorgimento. It was a private residence of the Princes of Carignano, after whom it is named. Its rounded façade is different from other façades of the same structure.
It is located between piazza Carignano and piazza Carlo Alberto

National Museum Of Cinema Torino

Third time visited the museum of Cinema of Turin, still had fun playing with all those optical tricks and enjoyed viewing all those film related displays.

The National Museum of Cinema (Museo Nazionale del Cinema) located in Turin, is an Italian motion picture museum, fitted out inside the Mole Antonelliana tower. It is operated by the Maria Adriana Prolo Foundation, and the core of its collection is the result of the work of the historian and collector Maria Adriana Prolo . It was housed in the Palazzo Chiablese.

The museum houses pre-cinematographic optical devices such as magic lanterns, earlier and current film technologies, stage items from early Italian movies and other memorabilia.
Along the exhibition path of about 35.000 square feet (3.200 m²) on five levels, it is possible to visit some areas devoted to the different kinds of film crew, and in the main hall, fitted in the temple hall of the Mole (which was a building originally intended as a synagogue), a series of chapels representing several film genres.

The museum keeps a huge and growing collection of film posters, stocks, and a library: at present it includes 20,000 devices, paintings and printed artworks, more than 80,000 pictures, over 300,000 film posters, 12,000 movie reels and 26,000 books (as of February 2006). A movie screen located in the Massimo multiplex, near to the museum, is reserved to retrospectives and other museum initiatives. The museum hosts several film festivals, the major and most prestigious of them being the Torino Film Festival.

Inside the museum there is also a panoramic elevator (opened in 2000) with transparent glass walls, that cover its 75 meters ride in 59 seconds, in the single open space span of the building, without middle floors, up to the "small temple" which gives a 360 degrees panoramic view of the city. It is the museum with the biggest vertical extension of the world.

Mole View From A Narrow Street

From the town hall walk along via Palazzo di Città, right at the end is piazza Castello, and behind the building where the Teatro Reale is, stands proudly the landmark of Torino, La Mole.

In these days, La Mole is often decorated by flock of clouds.....

Some Flowers To Brighten The Day

Just some flowers taken at the annual flower market/show along via Carlo Alberto and via Roma, pretty much the same sort of flowers just like every previous years...Still, they are beautiful to look at.

Royal Library Of Turin

The Royal Library of Turin (Biblioteca Reale di Torino) is located under the porticoes on the ground floor of the Royal Palace (today a World Heritage Site) in the north-west Italian city of Turin. At the time of the library’s foundation around 1840, Turin was the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia and the library was fitted out by Pelagio Palagi on the initiative of the King of Sardinia Carlo Alberto in order to hold the rare manuscripts that had been collected by the House of Savoy for many years. The king also increased the collection by 2000 drawings by famous artists, including Leonardo da Vinci. In 1893, during the reign of Umberto I of Savoy as King of Italy, the collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings was added to by a Russian collector who donated Codex on the Flight of Birds. Further works by Leonardo held by the library include his well-known self-portrait, his study for the angel in the first version of his Virgin of the Rocks, and his study for the angel in Verrocchio's The Baptism of Christ.

 The ceiling is gorgeous....

 Love the little upper level along the whole library....

The collection is quite exquisite....

 And this man has been watching the library silently....

Blue Hour

The basilica of Superga in a haze of blue, near evening, just before the arrival of a sudden storm.

The Basilica was built from 1717 to 1731 for Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, designed by Filippo Juvarra, at the top of the hill of Superga. This fulfilled a vow the duke (and future King of Sardinia) had made during the Battle of Turin, after defeating the besieging French army within the War of the Spanish Succession. The architect alluded to earlier styles while adding a baroque touch. The church contains the tombs of many princes and kings of the House of Savoy, including the Monument to Carlo Emanuele III (1733) by Ignazio Collino and his brother Filippo. Under the church are the tombs of the Savoy family, including most of its members (among them, Charles Albert).

Rainbow over The Basilica of Superga

This church by Juvarra is considered late Baroque-Classicism. The dome was completed in 1726 and resembles some elements of Michelangelo's dome at St. Peter's Basilica. This is no coincidence as Juvarra studied and worked in Rome for ten years prior to working in Turin. The temple front protrudes from a dome structure citing the Pantheon. The temple front is larger than typical proportions because the Superga is set upon this hill. It is also believed that Victor Amadeus wanted the basilica to rest on this hill as reminder of the power of the Savoy family as well as continue a line of sight to the existing Castle of Rivoli. Later, the Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi completed the triangle between the three residences of Savoy.
The Royal Crypt of Superga is the burial place of the Savoy family.
The history of the church can be traced to September 2, 1706, when Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy and the Prince of Carignano, Eugene of Savoy climbed the hill to see Turin besieged by Franco-Spanish forces during the War of the Spanish Succession. Victor Amadeus, having knelt down in front of an old prop, swore that, in case of victory, he would have a monument built to our Lady (the Virgin Mary). From dawn until the early hours of the afternoon of September 7 the armies clashed in the fields at Jaya and Madonna di Campagna. Piedmontese armies achieved victory over the French. The entrance of the basilica with its portico supported by eight columns. Vittorio Amedeo was crowned King of Sicily. He entrusted the design of this building to Filippo Juvarra.
The mountain at which the Basilica is found was the site of the Superga air disaster of Grande Torino football team in 1949.
 ( Texts quoted from : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Superga )

CDP August Theme :Young At Heart

The curiosity of the young ones......

We are all at certain time young at heart, it shows especially when we are in company of these really young kids....

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