Animal Instinct

Some ladies show off their wild side by dressing up and walking around in the center of the Turin.

These costumes can be found in some chinese shops here, most probably they are now  temporary closed due to the outbreak.


Location : Piazza Castello

A Tunnel To The Palace

Beside the cathedrale, there is this little 'tunnel' which links to the courtyard of the Royal Palace. Due to the great difference of style of the buildings and the difference type of paviment, it is as if the tunnel is a link to two different worlds.

 Location : Palazzo Reale

Deep Red In Piazza CLN

Deep Red (Italian: Profondo rosso), also known as The Hatchet Murders, is a 1975 Italian giallo film, directed by Dario Argento and co-written by Argento and Bernardino Zapponi. It was released on 7 March 1975. It was produced by Claudio and Salvatore Argento, and the film's score was composed and performed by Goblin. It stars Macha Meril as a medium and David Hemmings as a pianist who investigates a series of murders performed by a mysterious figure wearing black leather gloves. 

The movie is one of the 20 selected films which were made in Turin, displayed and introduced at a selected location where they were filmed. For 'Deep Red', the location selected is in piazza CLN, which is behind the more famous piazza San carlo.

Deep Red was shot mainly on location in Turin, Italy in sixteen weeks. Argento chose Turin because at the time there were more practising Satanists there than in any other European city, excluding Lyon. His original working title for the film was La Tigre dei Denti a Sciabola (The Sabre-Toothed Tiger).

 Location : Piazza CLN

By Po

There are two fountains in piazza CLN, each delicated to the two main rivers, Po and Dora of Turin. Po being the male and Dora the female.

Someone sitting by the Po, trying to get some warmth from the sun

During the German occupation in the Second World War, the piazza was sadly known because it housed the Gestapo command, located at the National Hotel.The name of the piazza was later dedicated to the National Liberation Committee, formed in Italy at the end of fascism.

Location : Piazza CLN

Heaven In Piazza Carignano

Heaven is a 2002 romantic thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer, starring Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi. Co-screenwriter Krzysztof Kieślowski intended for it to be the first part of a trilogy (the second being Hell and the third titled Purgatory), but Kieślowski died before he could complete the project. The film is an international co-production among producers based in Germany, France, Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The dialogue is in Italian and English. 

The film was made in Turin and is one of the 20 different locations where 20 different movies were filmed.

In this case, the 'Heaven' was filmed in Palazzo Carignano, where the palazzo was transformed into barrack of the carabinieri.   

 

 Location :  PIAZZA CARIGNANO – VIA ACCADEMIA DELLE SCIENZE

Torino SottoSopra

On Sunday, a demostration with music and songs was carried out along via Po. 

To voice against the recent attacks against nightlife hide the attempt to normalize young people's lives.

 
Highlighting the urban feeling of freedom that suffers from having been "torn down": "Events, music, have disappeared from the city outdoors".

On the floats of the Carnival «Torino Sotto Sopra" .


Location : Via Po

Windows Shopping

Among all the shopping streets in Turin, via Po has the most cosy atmosphere for windows shopping.

 
There are beautiful, colorful window displays, a great variety of shops and between shops there are cafes and restaurants which set up tables under the arcade, and when evening approaches, the lights from the shops and the arcade ceiling create a quite amazing effect.

Location : Via Po

Forbidden Garden

Follow up by the fencing of the buildings at La Cavallerizza Reale, also the once 'open to pubblic' secret garden behind the buildings ( it is actually part of the royal garden linked to the royal palace ) is gated up.

The once Eden like, free spirit garden where public can bring their dogs to take a walk, enjoy a bit of nature with the view of La Mole towering from afar, is now closed to public.

Location : La Cavallerizza Reale

Cavallerizza Fenced Up

The Cavallerizza Reale or Cavallerizza Reale of Turin is a building located in Turin, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997,

Designed in 1740 in Baroque style by the architect Benedetto Alfieri on a previous project dating back to the mid-seventeenth century by the engineer Amedeo di Castellamonte, the structure was used for the execution of equestrian exercises.

In 1840 the building underwent a profound transformation based on a project by architect Ernest Melano. On 13 July 1943 the complex was damaged by bombing.

The building, which was abandoned and occupied by some collectives in March 2014, was affected by three intense fires of malicious origin: one in 2014 (remained guilty), one in 2016 and another in 2019. The first of them inspired a theatrical performance that took place in the complex one year after the event.

Now, the complex has been fenced up, the occupants were sent away and entering to the buildings is forbidden.

Let's just hope the complex won't be abandoned as before....

Location : La Cavallerizza Reale

Sleeping Out Cold

As per every winter, many homeless still have to sleep out in cold.

This guy was sleeping under the arcade in front of the palazzo Carignano, under shelter and at least had some rather heavy blankets. Fortunately enough, this winter isn't as cold as previous years, still, let's hope the cold will be gone soon enough.

Location : Piazza Carlo Alberto

Dopo Mezzanotte At La Mole

After Midnight (Italian: Dopo mezzanotte) is a 2004 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Davide Ferrario. It entered the Forum section at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival, in which Ferrario won the Caligari Film Prize and the Don Quixote Award.

The film was made in Turin, almost entirely filmed inside La Mole, the cinema museum. 
For the year long event, 'Turin, Cinema City 2020', 20 installations are placed in 20 locations where various films had been made in Turin. 'Dopo Mezzanotte' was made in La Mole, so the installation with a small screen inside showing clip of the film is placed just under the Cinema Museum, La Mole.

 Location : La Mole, Via Verdi

Via Giuseppe Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini (22 June 1805 – 10 March 1872) was an Italian politician, journalist, activist for the unification of Italy, and spearhead of the Italian revolutionary movement. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. He also helped define the modern European movement for popular democracy in a republican state.
Mazzini's thoughts had a very considerable influence on the Italian and European republican movements, in the Constitution of Italy, about Europeanism, and, more nuanced, on many politicians of a later period: among them, men like U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, but also post-colonial leaders such as Gandhi, Savarkar, Golda Meir, David Ben-Gurion, Kwame Nkrumah, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sun Yat-sen.

And there is a street in Turin named after this famous man. 

This is one end of the street which leads to via Lagrange.

The Monument to the Siccardi laws

The Savoia Square is famous today for the imposing Baveno granite obelisk, 21 meters high, erected in 1853 in memory of the Siccardi laws of 1850. The idea of ​​erecting a celebratory monument for the controversial laws of the Minister of Justice and Senator Count Giuseppe Siccardi (who abolished the ecclesiastical forum) was already in 1851, on the initiative of the Turin newspaper Gazzetta del Popolo. The obelisk was designed by the painter and sculptor Luigi Quarenghi and the supporters of the project (including the director of the Gazzetta del Popolo, Giovanni Battista Bottero) proposed to place it in Piazza Carignano. Not without bitter discussions with the Turin clergy, the Archbishop Luigi Fransoni, on 23 November 1853 the monument was inaugurated here, as one of the phrases engraved on the obelisk recalls:

«Abolished by Law IX April MDCCCL the ecclesiastical forum, people and municipality placed IV March MDCCCLIII»
(Epigraph on the monument)

The monument also contains the names of the 800 municipalities that enthusiastically supported the work, carved on all sides. On the day of the laying of the first stone, June 17, 1852, numbers 141 and 142 of the Gazzetta del Popolo, a copy of the Siccardi law, coins, rice seeds, breadsticks and a bottle of Barbera wine were walled in the base. Fruit of the anti-clerical ideology, it was deliberately placed in a square near the Sanctuary of the Consolata, seat of the main city devotion, and in Palazzo Barolo, where the Catholic Giulia Falletti of Barolo resided.

During the Second World War, fighting in the city streets threatened to knock down the obelisk: fighters stationed in Corso Siccardi, in the direction of Via Cernaia, fired a few mortar rounds in the direction of Piazza Savoia, damaging the monument and causing it to falter; remained standing, it was restored after the war.
A second restoration, in 1993, cleaned the surface and the wide staircase.

Location : Piazza Savoia

The Squirrels Of Ruffini Park

There are many squirrels in the Ruffini park situated in the San Paolo District, due to the smaller size of the park as compared to Valentino park, so the squirrels here are more concentrated in certain areas. That means spotting them is much easier.

However, the squirrels are less sociable and more caution, they won't grab food from your hands, they will just wait for you to throw the food to them.

Location : Parco Ruffini

Portici Series Piazza Palazzo Di Città

The arcade around the town hall square is relatively short as compared to many other arcade in the center, but there are normally many informative banners hang under the arcade which makem it rather stand out.

Location : Piazza Palazzo Di Città

Proud Mamma Duck

A mamma duck presents her 9 little ducklings to the public along Murazzi. I think they nest at the embarking point for the river cruise which is now closed down due to the sinking of the two cruise boats.

Their appearance created a little excitement for the people taking a walk along the river Po at Murazzi.

Location : Murazzi

Hare Krishnas Strikes Again

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement or Hare Krishnas, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organisation. ISKCON was founded in 1966 in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Its core beliefs are based on the Hindu scriptures, particularly the Bhagavad Gita and the Bhagavata Purana, and the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, which has had adherents in India since the late 15th century and American and European devotees since the early 1900s.
The organization was formed to spread the practice of Bhakti yoga, the practice of love of God in which those involved (bhaktas) dedicate their thoughts and actions towards pleasing Krishna, the Supreme Lord. Its most rapid expansions in membership as of 2007 have been within India and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in Russia, Ukraine, and the rest of the ex-Soviet aligned states of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The organization is banned in Singapore.

 In Italy, the organization is not banned, insteads, quite often, their followers can be seen cheerfully singing and dancing along the street. Just yesterday evening they were singing and dancing under the arcade along via Roma and in the San Federico galleria.

 Location : Galleria San Federico

Tables Set

A usually rather crowded pizza restaurant in piazza Carlo Alberto, moments before customers begin to come by.

Tables are set, outdoor heatings are set, waiters are chatting between them, relaxing before the hectic evening begins.

Location : Piazza Carlo Alberto

The Star In Piazza Castello

Piazza Castello is a beautiful square, often people are too busy admiring the magnificent, majestic, glorious buildings such as the Royal Palace, the Madama Palace and the San Lorenzo Church and don't notice the graphic design of the pavement in the square.

In more or less the center of the square in front of the Royal palace and between the fountains there is a star, not sure what it represents or it is just simply a design, but it does make the square look better.

Location : Piazza Castello

San Paolo District

Borgo San Paolo (Borgh San Pàul in Piedmontese), or simply San Paolo, is a district located in the western part of the city of Turin, belonging to District 3, together with the Lesna, Cenisia, Pozzo Strada and Cit Turin districts, plus the small Rione Lancia, so called because it hosted the Turin car manufacturer Lancia.

 At the end of this street is the San Paolo skyscape.

Location : Borgo San Paolo

Portici Series Porta Palazzo

Porta Palazzo is more known for its huge open air market and its ethnic diversity, its arcade therefore is often overlooked.

Not as well decorated and as grand as those in other major streets, but it does has its own characteristical charm.

Location : Porta Palazzo

Al Bicerin

Bicerin is a traditional hot drink native to Turin, Italy, made of espresso, drinking chocolate, and milk served layered in a small glass.

The word bicerin is Piedmontese for "small glass" and is the equivalent of Italian bicchierino (diminutive of bicchiere, or “glass").
This coffee beverage has existed since the 18th century and was praised by Alexandre Dumas in 1852. It is believed to be based on the 17th century drink bavarèisa ("Bavarian"): the key distinction is that in a bicerin the three components are carefully layered in the glass rather than being mixed together.

Everywhere in Torino, you can find bars and caffè offering Bicerin, but the best place to try this drink is at the more than 200 years old Caffè Al Bicerin .
Caffè al Bicerin, sits across from the Santuario della Consolata, a historic coffeehouse in Torino’s piazza della Consolata, has been serving the drink since the 18th century. 

Location : Piazza Della Consolata

Living By La Mole

La Mole being the symbol of Turin, is a major landmark and tourist attraction. Just in front of it is a three storey building with housings, I always immagine how it is feel like living so near to this gorgeous, famous building of Turin?

Location : Via Gaudenzio Ferrari

San Lorenzo

The Royal Church of Saint Lawrence (Italian: Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo) is a Baroque-style church in Turin, adjacent to the Royal Palace of Turin. The present church was designed and built by Guarino Guarini during 1668-1687.

The Duke Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy was one of the leaders of the Habsburg armies of his cousin Philip II of Spain; they decisively defeated the French armies in the Battle of Saint-Quentin in Northern France on 10 August 1557, the Feast of St. Lawrence (San Lorenzo), which affected the outcome of the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis; in which, the Savoy, including Turin, was returned to the rule of the mercenary duke. That the Battle occurred on the Saint's feast instigated Phillip's denomination and design of the palace of El Escorial. Emmanuel Philibert, on his return to Turin in 1562, renovated the old ducal chapel of Santa Maria ad Presepae, which is still present near the entrance, and erected this church dedicated to St. Lawrence. Construction of the contemporary church began in 1634.
The architect Guarino Guarini was a great innovator in Baroque principles first developed by the great Roman Baroque architect Francesco Borromini, in particular the play with optical effects and organic "deconstruction" of the classical orders and principles of column and entablature. However, in San Lorenzo Guarini took these further. The ground plan is a kind of square which becomes an octagon at the level of the entablatures above the columns only to change again to become a Greek cross at the level of the pendentives of the vaults. Again, the base of the dome is circular in plan yet the lantern above it octagonal. The dome itself is supported by eight ribs forming a lattice similar to those found in mosques and Romanesque churches in Spain. To this superposition of - by the standards of convention - contradictory central plans is added an elliptical choir. The high altar, separated from the nave by a convex and concave archway receives natural light from a hidden dome, devices drawn from the other key Roman Baroque architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 

( Text From :  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Lorenzo,_Turin )

Location : Piazza Castello

Portici Series Via Po

The arcade in Via Po starts from piazza Castello up until piazza Vittorio, it is characterised by a serie of old books stalls under the arcade on one side of the street which is near the University.

Location : Via Po

CDP February Theme : Streetscape

The February CDP theme is Streetscape, and I chose this street view of via Pietro Micca which is one of the most photgraphed street of Turin.

   
Via Pietro Micca is one of the historic streets in the center of Turin. It begins in Piazza Castello and ends in Piazza Solferino. It was built in the period 1885-1897, obliquely with respect to the road network, thus becoming one of the first streets to break the typical chessboard of the Roman Quadrilateral; because of its design it was nicknamed the Diagonal.
The architectural matrix of the street is the eclectic style; it was named after Pietro Micca, a name attributed to the soldier of the Savoy army believed to be the author of the explosion in one of the tunnels that ran under the military Citadel, provoked to prevent the invasion of French troops during the siege of Turin in 1706.

Beisde the long straight street which direct the view towards the Grattacielo SanPaolo at the end, I think the gorgeous building with the circular corner is another major eye catcher.

Location : Via Pietro Micca

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