Tourist Attractions & Monuments Turin

In the basement of the Church of the Shroud are exposed, among other things, to documents concerning the results of experimental research conducted on the relic. In the same place is the International Centre for the Study of the Shroud, which collaborates with specialists in different fields.

A collection of 15 000 works (only one part is exhibited) of international, Italian and Piedmontese artists from the th century to the present. The first floor is devoted to the period from the former Regime at the beginning of the 1st century; in particular, it welcomes the sculptures of Canova. The 2nd floor is devoted to several artists in Brasilia, such as Pellizza da Volpedo and the Group of Six (Chessa, Galante, Levi, Menzio, Paolucci, Boswell). There are also an impressive number of contemporary Italian artists, such as the sculptor Medardo Rosso, Modigliani, Sironi, De Chirico, Morandi, De Pisis, Felice Casorati, Lucio Fontana, Guttuso, and representatives of the "Poor Art" movement, the main one being Michelangelo Pistoletto. Finally, with regard to foreign artists, Klee, Picasso, Léger and Chagall.

Located next to the monastery, this museum, founded by the CAI (Italian Alpine Club), covers the history of mountaineering and mountain exploration, and the life and traditions of the inhabitants of the Italian Alps until the beginning of the xxth century. He is dedicated to Luigi di Savoia, duke of Abruzzo, an explorer duke who was the first to reach the top of the K 2 summit. You can also see objects that belonged to the members of the Italian expedition at the North Pole in 1907.

says the Vela (sailing) because of its shape.

An impressive structure of glass and iron built in 1961 and characterized by original mushroom-shaped columns.

Said the Fetta di Polenta, this building, 1884, has the shape of a polenta slice. It is an original achievement of Antonelli, an architect of the Mole.

The Martini Museum on Oenology history stems from the passion for the founder's archaeology of the famous drink, Lando Rossi di Montelera. Inaugurated in 1961, the collection exhibited in the th cellars of one of the company's first seats presents in a thematic order the archaeological and Renaissance remains linked to the process of producing alcohol. The giant presses are impressive!