The Giardini Reali is actually a big park which is linked to the Royal Palace.
These days since after the first fase of reopening, many people are there to enjoy the sun, walk their dogs and gathering with friends.
Some people even grouped up to practise yoga on the lawn.
Location : Giardini Reali
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The government offices at Piazza castello with banners suporting the reopening of the Piedmont regione. The offices should be mainly empty, as the employees are working at home.
Location : Piazza Castello
At 3 PM, military planes were flying above the center of the town, spreading the colors of Italian flag, green, white and red across the sky.
To celebrate the 'Festa Della Republica', which is the national day of Italy, these planes are arranged to fly over various cities everyday, until the 2nd of June which they will fly over Rome.
Today, they flew over Torino and from my balcony, I could clearly see them flying across.
Lots of people who didn't want to miss the event gathered in the piazzas and via Po, all the way until the
Gran Madre Church which is across the river, to view the event. Of
course nobody was obeying the restriction of safety distance.
Location : Via Pietro Micca
People were everywhere in the center on Saturday, the first day after the lockdown restaurants, bars and shops were allowed to reopen for business.
Under the arcade along via Po where there are many restaurants and bars, tables were setup under the arcade, placed in a safety distance between each table.
Due to the fact that tables were setup along the arcade where people walked through, so the space to walk was reduced significantly, so basically there was no safety distance between people walking under the arcade, either one was brushing with other people walking along or one was walking too close to the people sitting at the tables.
At the piazza, group of people were enjoying their freedom to take a walk and to gather with friends to chat, it seems that the restrictions for the reopening were forgotten completely.
Somehow, I miss the empty street during the lockdown.
Location : via Po/ Piazza Castello
Saturday, restaurants, bars and shops are officially allowed to reopen, even the stands selling household goods at the open air market are allowed to start again.
The chinese shops are opened too, chose one with less people queuing up and got in just after waited for a while, and of course was obliged to disinfect my hands before able to shop.
Every procedures are in order and people are behaving well in the shop.
Outside the shop is another story, many people are walking around, plus the queues in front of the shops, the scenerio is quite chaotic.
The household goods market is crowded and there is no control of the flow of people getting in and out. Whereas, at the fruits and vegetables market, the entrance and exit are monitored and there is a long queue.
Location : Porta Palazzo
This was taken at the initial of the pandemia in Italy, when the complete lockdown had yet to be started, but already certain restrictions such as forbidden of crowds had been implemented.
However, when passing through via Garibaldi, a pair of legs protruded outward at vai Botero caught my attention, looked funny.
Then, noticed further down the street, there was a long queue of people crowded together. Later found out that they were queuing up for the Monte dei Pegni, which provides pawn/loans service.
Location : Via Botero
As usual after the rain, small pond of water remained along the curd by the road, couldn't resist to snap a photo of the reflection on the water while the two cyclists dashed across the road.
Location : Via Pietro Micca
Palazzo Madama e Casaforte degli Acaja is a palace in Turin, northern Italy.
It was the first Senate of the Italian Kingdom, and takes its
traditional name from the embellishments it received under two queens (madama) of the House of Savoy.
The Palazzo Madama houses the Turin City Museum of Ancient Art.
Despite its name, it is a large collection of paintings, statues,
church ornaments, porcelain, and decorative art, mostly from the late
Middle Ages to the 18th century.
Turin's museum of ancient art, called Museo dell'Antichità , is located on the grounds of the Palazzo Reale.
Location : Piazza Castello
Spring and we were more or less restricted to go around till about two weeks ago, still we are reluctant to actually go around to explore the beauty of Spring.
Luckily, I have some plants and flowers on my balcony to remind me of the Spring.
Here are my yellow roses and some little white flowers which I don't know the name.
Location : Home
The walk in front of the Royal Theatre is a very pleasant one, as it is often accompanied by the music broadcasted from the theatre.
It leads all the way down to the Royal Park.
Location : Teatro Reale
A look at the situation in via Roma few days into the phase two lockdown, by now, everyone is more or less free to go around, so it is not really a lockdown.
Location : Via Roma
Already one week since the starting of phase two, during the weekend many people were out on the street.
In piazza, since the day 2 already many people were seen taking a walk and visiting their favourite piazza, sitting on the benches and chatted.
Location : Piazza Castello
Just 6 days into phase two lockdown, the park is already full with people.
Although the restriction states that the parks are opened only for people to take a walk, to jog, lying on the grass to take sun and playing ball games are not allowed, obviously more than 2 persons in a group is also forbidden, but judging from what we saw yesterday, people seem not following the restriction so strictly.
The authority doesn't seem to implement the restriction so strictly either.
Location : Giardini Reali
These few days, there are tents setup in the piazza in front of the town hall and in piazza Castello. They are the homeless who used to sleep in the dormitories, but due to the Covid 19, the state afraid that these dormitories might become hotbeds for the virus, so they closed them down.
The homeless are mostly people who have lost their jobs and home, so the dormitory is the only place where they can sleep during the night.
As a protest against the closure of the dormitories without a proprio consideration of their conditions, they setup tents in front of the town hall and in piazza Castello where the regional offices are, and sleep there.
Location : Piazza Palazzo di Città /Piazza Castello
The outdoor market at Porta Palazzo is finally allowed to open, but numbers of people allowed to enter into the fenced up market is limited, thus a long queue was formed yesterday when we were there. Ended up, we didn't enter to buy anything, the queue was too long.
There were fewer stalls then usual and the space was big, they should have allowed more people to get in, and strange enough the indoor market was allowed to get in freely with no control, isn't it more dangerous in closed up space?
Location : Porta Palazzo
One of the service who is still working during the lockdown is the postage service.
Of course the postmen are working with masks, even when under the rain, wonder how they could keep the masks dry if it rains heavily....
Location : Via Conte Verde
During the lockdown, the cathedral of Turin, chiesa San Giovanni, which normally has many visitors was closed.
Now, although we are in the phase two, mass in churches is still not allowed, certain churches are still opened for people to go in and pray, but I think the cathedral remains closed to public.
Location : Duomo
During this lockdown period, many shops and factories are forced to close up, many workers are asked to stay home and not many are getting paid, some of them even lost their job.
It is especially difficult for those who have family to support, everyday, they have to worry about food to feed their family, so there are places where a box or a bucket is setup to collect donated items to help these people.
One of these boxes is placed outside of the San Tommaso church near to where I live.
Location : Chiesa San Tommaso
55th day. Sunday, the last day of the first phase of the lockdown.
It was sunny like on Saturday.
On Saturday, there were quite a number of people walking, running, cycling along via Roma.
In piazza San Carlo, there were people sitting on the benches and chatted. Even the tables and chairs left on the piazza by the closed bars were occupied by small group of people, some were chatting among themselves and some were just sitting there to enjoy the sun.
Guess it would be the same on Sunday.
Monday, the second phase will start and everyone will have more freedom to go around, I am afraid that there might be many people rushing out, so I will just continue to stay home for a few days more, just to observe the situation.
Today, by the balcony, saw a woman standing at the bus stop, looking at the bus list, it seemed that she wasn't clear about which bus number to take.
Our situation now is more or like hers, we know where we want to reach, but not sure how to get there.
Location : Via Roma/Piazza San Carlo
