However, visitors to the city should discover the additional museums across the city. We have picked five:

1. 'National Mountain Museum 'Duca Degli Abruzzi' Via Giardino, 39, Monte dei Cappuccini;
2. 'FIAT Historical Centre' at Via Chiabrera, 20 and 'Museo dell'Automobile' at Corso Unita d'Italia, 40.;
3. 'The National Italian Risorgimento Museum' Via Accademia delle Scienze, 5;
4. 'The House of Savoy Tombs' Superga, Strada della Basilica di Superga;
5. 'The Puppet Museum' Via Santa Teesa, 5.

The city flourished in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries as the centre of the Savoy Kingdom, and capital of the Baroque; it became Italy’s first capital in 1861, before power was moved to Florence, and finally Rome.

Turin today has much more to offer than its impressive royal heritage of baroque palaces, churches, squares and grand corsi lined with 18 km of porticoes designed to protect the nobles against the elements.

Its surroundings are blessed with mountains, hills, lakes and plains; the city is bursting with life and constantly on the move. It is Italy’s modern and contemporary art capital and home to Italian cinema.

Turin’s industrial legacy is also evident, most dramatically in the form of the Lingotto, Fiat’s former factory, hailed at the time as “the cathedral of technology”.

Right in the centre, dominating the cityscape, is Turin’s extravagant and famous landmark, the “Mole Antonelliana” an example of engineering as art.

But there is more to Turin then architecture. There is the biggest museum of Antique Egyptian art after Cairo and the controversial Holy Shroud, the cloth in which Christ’s body was supposedly wrapped after his crucifixion.

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