Torino, January 2008
Another trip I never had time to write about: Enrico and I spent a weekend in Torino in January (in unusually warm weather, lucky us!). Click on a thumbnail below to see a larger version; use your browser's back button to return to this page. COPYRIGHT NOTICEThese images are copyrighted. You may use up to ten of them freely for non-commercial purposes (for commercial use, contact me), giving credit as follows: photo copyright Deirdré Straughan, beginningwithi.com If you use any on a website, I would appreciate a link back to this site, as well as a mention of my name, Deirdré Straughan.
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 If I remember correctly, this is the church that houses the Shroud of Turin. I refused to pay money to see it. |
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The graffiti sticker in the upper right corner says "No Ritalin in Turin." Though I agree that psychoactive drugs are probably over-prescribed, especially to children, in the US, there's got to be a happy medium between that and the common Italian conviction that Ritalin is something Americans invented so they could drug their children into submission... |
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The Mole Antonelliano, a Torino landmark which now houses the National Museum of the Cinema. We visited it, it was fun. After all the walking around, we especially enjoyed reclining in chairs to watch old movie clips. |
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Then we had dinner... |  |
The next day we visited a hilltop park outside the city featuring a huge winged victory statue (they had to saw it into three sections to get it up there) and plaques commemorating soldiers who died in WWI.   |
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 Viewpoints in Italy often tell you what you're looking at... |
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