The famous gianduja, a hazelnut and chocolate paste at the origin of Nutella (which was originally called pasta gianduja), and the gianduiotti were created here. Turin is the Italian capital of chocolate. Nietzsche, but also Alexandre Dumas, Puccini, Rossini, Cavour and Cesare Pavese were all habitués of these famous coffee houses. Turin was a literary center for many centuries, from the establishment of the court of the Duchy of Savoy to the period after WWII. There is probably no other city in the world with as many historic cafés still in operation, where you can soak up the revolutionary and literary atmosphere of the 19th century. Piazza San Carlo, one of the main squares of Turin, alone counts three of Turin’s historic cafés. About every second or third house on Via Po, Turin’s famous promenade, is a café, confectionery or pasticceria. The city counts the greatest number of cafés per capita, many of which are historic cafès. Galleria Grande of the Palace of Venaria, Turin The grandeur of Turin can be witnessed all over the city: in the Palazzo Reale, Palazzo Madama, Palazzo Carignano, the large, majestic boulevards and the arcaded shopping streets, and, of course, in La Venaria, Turin’s equivalent of Versailles.
Nearly all of Italy’s history leading to the unification was centralized in Turin. Also born here were some of the major political figures and influential thinkers of that time, among whom Cavour, a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification and Italy’s first Prime Minister. The city is also the birth town of the first King of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoy. Cavour’s birth house in Via Lagrange 29, Turin. Only Turin can lay claim to being the first capital of unified Italy, when the Kingdom of Italy was founded in 1861. Other Italian cities did have their noble dynasties, but these reigned as princes over city-states or as emperors, before the country was unified into the State bearing the name Italy. While Rome is associated with Antiquity and Florence with the Renaissance, Turin is Italy’s regal city per excellence. Turin is Italy’s only true royal city Palazzo Carignano bearing the inscription “Qui nacque Vittorio Emanuele II” (Here Vittorio Emanuele II was born). Here are at least ten reasons why this bubbling and inspiring city definitely should be on your Italy bucket list.ġ.
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