Turin is an elegant town, tall apartment blocks and narrow streets. Big open piazzas, busy but not crowded.
It has two huge museums. We spent from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Royal Palace. It hasn’t actually had royalty in it since about 1700, even then they were local, not Italian. But they were rich, and aquired a large collection of artworks, old masters, paintings from the 4 to 19 century, plus the sumtuous royal rooms (endless) THEN there are two museums, one of “Antiquities” and one of Roman stuff. The Antiquities include a lot of Greek vases and Roman artefacts, a huge hall of armour, weaponry, early guns.
The Roman museum has good statues, mosaics, and tombs.
It was all so interesting, the time flew by.
Next day was the market, huge market, open air and covered, wonderful smells from the vegetable stalls, herbs, mushrooms, fruit.
Then the Egyptian Museum, this has a very large collection od mummies and grave goods from exploration done by Turin archaeologists. Nicely arranged chronologically so you get to see the changing societies over a couple of thousand years!
