{"id":5916,"date":"2025-10-15T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:29:27","slug":"wandering-around-torino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/15\/wandering-around-torino\/","title":{"rendered":"Wandering Around Torino"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve gotten used to staying in smaller, compact cities. Now in Italy\u2019s fourth-largest city Torino, it feels a bit overwhelming but not in a bad way. We are very happy with our somewhat funky, somewhat gritty neighborhood. From our bedroom window we look over the rooftop of a church.<\/p>\n

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The Church Next Door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The streets are busy with traffic and just around the corner is a piazza with a large statue. The piazza is lined with small restaurants nice for a casual meal, a coffee or an aperitivo.<\/p>\n

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Piazza Nearby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The skies have been gray and the haze we experienced in Cremona turns out to be an air quality problem for the entire region – not something we expected being so near the Alps. In spite of that, we have been content with wandering around the city. There are some nice walkways and the leaves on the trees are beginning to change.<\/p>\n

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Torino Walkway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So far, we haven\u2019t visited a museum or a palazzo in this city. \u00a0We did go inside the Duomo where the Shroud of Turin is now kept.<\/p>\n

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Turin Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We learned that \u201cThe resting place of the Shroud is within Turin Cathedral (Piazza San Giovanni), in the last chapel of the left aisle, under the Royal Tribune<\/b>. Under normal circumstances, the Shroud cannot be observed directly, as it is preserved within a special \u201cconservation case\u201d, which in turn is enclosed in a large metal box.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pasticcerie are on every corner. \u00a0We like to window shop for pastries and think that these crostatas look more like homemade than some displayed in fancier shops.<\/p>\n

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Crostatas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Italian food is wonderful, but often we find that restaurants in many smaller towns are limited to traditional Italian food. Torino is unusual in that it has embraced many types of foreign cuisine, and is willing to fuse traditional Italian food with influences from abroad. In our neighborhood, we have a restaurants serving Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Argentinian food, as well as many variations of Italian cuisine.<\/p>\n

Nearby is a seafood restaurant (A6 Sciamadda) with excellent calamari; \u00a0a ravioli shop (Ravolihouse Torino) where you can choose your own ravioli shape, filling, and sauce; a restaurant that specializes in baked potatoes with exotic fillings (Poormanger); and a very good Chinese noodle shop which we liked a lot. Last night we opted for a wood-fired pizza from Speedy Pizza – just like the name suggests it was ready quickly and only \u20ac7.50.<\/p>\n

The nearby department store was setting up for the holidays today.<\/p>\n

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Ready for the Holidays<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We are feeling relaxed here\u2026we like having an apartment and this one at Residenza dell\u2019Opera has worked out great. We have one more full day in the city before we take a bus to the airport in Milan. We will stay in an airport hotel and will hopefully be home Saturday afternoon. Traveling in Italy is always fun and this has been an excellent get-away.<\/p>\n

We hope you\u2019re having a good week! Cheers!<\/p>\n

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Wine Shop Bouquet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve gotten used to staying in smaller, compact cities. Now in Italy\u2019s fourth-largest city Torino, it feels a bit overwhelming but not in a bad way. We are very happy with our somewhat funky, somewhat gritty neighborhood. From our bedroom window we look over the rooftop of a church. The streets are busy with traffic … <\/p>\n

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