Top 10 Things to do in Province of Turin, Italy

The Museo delle Antichità Egizie is the only museum other than the Cairo Museum that is dedicated solely to Egyptian art and culture. Many international scholars, since the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs Jean-François Champollion, who came to Turin in 1824, spend much time pouring over the collections. It was Champollion who famously wrote, “The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin”.The collections that make up today’s Museum, were enlarged by the excavations conducted in Egypt by the Museum’s archaeological Mission between 1900 and 1935 (a period when finds were divided between the excavators and Egypt).The Egyptian Museum in Turin has begun 2009 an important project which wants to widen spaces in order to enhance the collections through modern museographical and museological criteria. The Museum will be open all over the period of restoration and the New Egyptian Museum inauguration is scheduled for the year 2015.

The Museum is one of the most important of its kind in the world thanks to it vast collection and the many different scientific and educational activities it carries out. But what makes it truly unique is its special exhibit setup. The museum is located inside the Mole Antonelliana, a bizarre and fascinating monument which is the symbol of the City of Torino. And the various areas inside the Mole Antonelliana were the starting point for the Swiss set designer François Confino who, with talent and imagination, multiplied the museum's itineraries. He created a spectacular presentation that offers visitors continuous and unexpected visual and acoustic stimuli, just like when we watch a film that involves and moves us.

The Museo del Grande Torino e della Leggenda Granata is located in Via G.B. La Salle 87 at Grugliasco (TO) and is open on Saturdays from 14 to 19 and Sundays from 10 to 19 (last admission both days at 17.30) . After 10 years spent in two rooms in the cloister of the Basilica of Superga, the Museum moved to Grugliasco in 2008 in the premises of the beautiful 17th century villa Claretta-Assandri where it can take advantage of about 650 square meters available so as to show our visitors many relics of the history of Torino FC from 1906 to today. Among these, we can enumerate the Balilla car belonged to Gigi Meroni, a part of the wooden grandstand of the stadium Filadelfia, the horn used by the "Trumpeter of Filadelfia" to boost the players of the Grande Torino, the cassette of the masseur with inners still intact despite the tremendous impact as well as a wheel and a propeller of the aircraft of Superga. To give you an idea of ​​the richness of our museum collection, there are on display original documents from 1906 to today, original photos of players and managers from 1912 to today, original sweaters and suits of Torino FC and Italian National Team from 1927 to today, original shoes and balls from the 50s to today, as well as hundreds of personal belongings owned by the players. The tours are all guided by our volunteers who will narrate you the story of a big club often related to the historical events of our country.

This was the first “home” of the Holy Shroud after its arrival from Chambéry. San Lorenzo has an extraordinary cupola (completed in 1680) designed by Guarino Guarini and exemplifies the baroque style. The Duke Emanuele Filiberto had the church dedicated to the Saint after the victory of the Battle of San Quintino. In piazza Castello.