Torino
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Discovering Torino means exploring twenty centuries of history. Walking along its streets is like visiting an open-air museum. Palazzo Carignano, designed by Guarini, was the site of the first Italian parliament. Today it is the site of the Museum of the “Risorgimento”. In the baroque Piazza Carignano we can see two more of Guarini´s works: the Galleria Sabauda and the Egyptian Museum, founded in 1824, which is the world's oldest and second most important of its kind. It keeps more than 30,000 items, including the black granite statue of Ramses II, the tomb of architect Kha and a large collection of papyruses and other objects.

In Piazza Castello, the Palazzo Madama houses the Art Museum, currently being restored. Opposite the palace is the church of San Lorenzo, and to the right is the Royal Palace. Alongside the cathedral is the chapel of the Holy Shroud, built by Guarini too. The Holy Shroud has been kept and periodically displayed here since 1864. It is an object of pilgrimage revered as Christ's funeral shroud, but also an object of historical and scientific interest.

To the right are the Museum of Antiquities and the Royal Gardens. Going back towards Piazza Castello is the Royal Armoury, with one of the world's most important collections of arms. Behind the State Archive and the Teatro Regio is the area of the Cavallerizza, and in the same direction one can admire the Mole Antonelliana, the symbol of the city. Torino and Piedmont have eighty museums which can be visited with a single ticket - the “Carta Musei”.

It has major art collections with works by Leonardo, Antonello da Messina, Beato Angelico, Mantegna, Pollaiolo, Van Eyck, Rembrandt or Van Dyck. The Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAM) is the second most important of its kind in Italy. Just outside Torino, the Castle of Rivoli hosts exhibitions of international interest, and the Museum of Contemporary art offers a permanent display of Italian and foreign artists from the 1950s to the present time.

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