Puddle of Summer

The weather was hot, and then came the heavy rain and hail, which broke tree branches, dented cars parked on the street, and of course there were puddles of water everywhere.

 Location: Via Pietro Micca

 

 

Last Rain In March

The last (almost) rain in March, it was quite a pouring for almost the whole day.

With the crowd of tourists came in for Easter hoilday and the non stop raining, the center was quite chaotic.

Let's hope the beginning of April is more calm and gentile.

Location: Via Bertola

She Is Reading

There is a school at the junction of the street where I live. Normally, we see parents of different races waiting for their children outside during the end of day of lessons.

One day, I walked on the opposite side of the street and saw a muslim woman reading something outside the school. Nothing special, I just like that image, so I snapped a photo.

 Location : Via Bertola

CDP May 2023 Theme Day : Museum, Cinema Museum

I have posted many photo of La Mole, a popular tourists attraction and landmark of Torino.

Beside being a dominating building, it is also the cinema museum, with many fun things to see and to play with, and a platform on the top to enjoy a panorama view of the city.

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Location : Cinema Museum

Moon Junction

 

 Just one of those peaceful and uneventful night, but the sky decided to be a little bit dramatic.

A shot made at the junction between via Pietro Micca and Via Bertola while walking home after dining out with friends.  

Location: Via Pietro Micca

Chapel of the Holy Shroud

The Chapel of the Holy Shroud (Italian: Cappella della Sacra Sindone) is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic chapel in Turin in northern Italy. Located outside the Turin Cathedral and connected to the Royal Palace of Turin, the chapel was designed by the architect Guarino Guarini and built at the end of the 17th century (1668–1694), during the reign of Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy. The chapel was constructed to house the Shroud of Turin (Sindone di Torino), a religious relic believed by many to be the burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth.

In 1997, the chapel was severely damaged by a massive fire, the cause of which is still a mystery. Firefighters who arrived on the scene managed to save the shroud allegedly by smashing through its bulletproof glass case. Subsequently, it was closed to the public and took over 21 years, and €30 million in funding to repair and restore the chapel to its original splendour. On September 27, 2018, the chapel reopened to the public with a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by the mayor and several government officials.

( Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Holy_Shroud )

This was the first time I actually see the Chapel, since I came to Turin a year or so after the fire. I was visiting the Royal palace and walked past it without realising it was the famous Chapel. Glad that I stopped and went in for a look. 

Location : Duomo 

The Red Palace

It is not exactly red in color, but orangish-red, anyway, it is a gorgeous palace which dominate the view in piazza Carignano.

It is actually located between 2 piazzas, piazza Carignano and piazza Carlo Alberto.

It 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.

 

Location : Palazzo Carignano

 

A Cold Sunny Day

It was a cold but sunny day, the sky was blue and the air was chilly. 

 

The buildings at the junction of the road were quite attractive, the shadows and shade of the photo taken were a bit too bluish, somehow the photo looks better in black and white.

Location : Via Pietro Micca

New Building

This new building is part of the University of Turin, the vertical green wall is very eyes catching and it does add some nature element onto the otherwise concrete environment.

Location : Via Verdi

Riparti Piemonte

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

Lock Down The Twenty-Third Day

23rd Day. 
Same balcony, same street.

On the opposite side of the street, a man was running on the the pavement along the street, fully geared, running with great determination.

 3, 4 persons were waiting at the bust stop on the other side, waiting with the same determination for the bus.

It seemed so quiet, almost so careful and delicate. 
Italians are not the silent type, they even talk with their hands, but now people are so silent.
Perhaps I couldn't hear from the balcony, or they were just not in the mood of being talkative.

There were always the honk, the impatient sound of the car honk, and the whirring, the vrooming sounds of the cars, also roaring of the trams and the piercing sound when it braked....
These sounds were absorbed.

Why are the cars now moving almost silently? Why are tha trams seem moving so smoothly?
 

Instead, there are too many unwanted noises by the media, especially on the internet.  Too many made up news that cause confusion and disturbances.


Location :  Via Pietro Micca/Via Bertola

CDP April Theme : School

Take a break from the lockdown and participate in the CDP theme day.

The Luigi Einaudi Campus (CLE) is a university campus located in Via Lungo Dora Siena, in Turin.
The campus building, built on an abandoned former industrial area, a short distance from the city center, was designed by Norman Foster's studio and was inaugurated in 2012; it stands adjacent to the Einaudi building, which is also a university building.
It is home to the schools of legal, political and economic-social sciences with the following departments: Culture, politics and society, Economics and statistics and Law

The campus includes the Norberto Bobbio library, which collects texts on anthropology, economics, law and political and social sciences.

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Location :  Luigi Einaudi Campus 

Lock Down The Fifteenth Day

15th day, two weeks and one day, more or less half a month. Went out to the ATM 200 meters away and took some photo on the way with the phone.

Not sure if I will continue to post daily, as I stay home most of the time, so the possibility of taking photo beyond from my balcony is slim.

Location : Streets Of Turin

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

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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Inside Palazzo Della Luce

A tribute to the splendours of the belle epoque and the seductions of the past, the Palazzo della Luce occupies an entire block with its imposing yet discreet structure. Defined by the Turinese as "the little Madama", it is inspired by the majestic and spectacular façade of the Palazzo Madama in Piazza Castello, magnificently interpreting the eclectic style in vogue at the beginning of the 20th century. A style that, nostalgically looking at the golden years of architecture, sometimes mixes it in a bizarre way, styles and details.
 

Inside, the wide and luminous entrance is a preamble to the sumptuous rooms on the first floor served by an impressive and spectacular grand staircase. Here, unknown to many, a large room of elegant neo-baroque architecture is revealed, dominated by a coffered vault with stucco rosettes, a hall that despite its evident richness of decorations retains a sober elegance and a discreet charm.

The palazzo is normally not open to public, I took the chance of attending an exhibition about psychology to visit this beautiful palazzo.

Turn out, the exhibition was pretty interesting itself.

Grattacielo San Paolo

Grattacielo Intesa Sanpaolo in Turin, Italy is a skyscraper as well as the headquarters for the banking group Intesa Sanpaolo. 

The building is the third tallest in the city, after the landmark Mole Antonelliana which has held the record since 1889, and Piedmont Region Headquarters.
Renzo Piano, Grattacielo Intesa Sanpaolo's architect, described the skyscraper as "bioclimatic building", being naturally ventilated and cooled; with a substantial amount of its power requirement to be generated from photovoltaic panels that cover the southern façade. It was awarded the LEED Platinum rating, making it the only high-rise building in Europe to hold such a certification.

Grattacielo Intesa Sanpaolo, some consider it as a sore in the eye, some consider it as symbol of modernization of the city....

Reflection In Pond Of Rain Water

Raining everyday, when it stopped, ponds of water were left all over the town, creating upside down mirror images of the town here and there.

At Cavallerizza Reale, a reflection of the opposite building with thye tip of La Mole on a pond of water.

Still Raining

Still raining, a scene at via Lagrange with my favourite building on that street in view.

Via Lagrange is one of the main shopping street in Torino, with some high end fashion shops and Eataly restaurante situated here, it can be quite crowded during weekends.

New Building

This 'new building ' is the Collegio Carlo Alberto, it is not exactly a new building, but was recently finished ( finally ) renovation and is now all clean and neat.

It is located at the corner of piazza Arbarello...