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National Automobile Museum (MAUTO), Turin
Italy’s National Automobile Museum (MAUTO) is situated a few blocks from the historic FIAT car factory in Turin (Torino), see our previous post. To be near to this museum, we moved from our original hotel in Centro to the NH Collection Lingotto Congress which is housed within a converted section of the old FIAT car…
Lingotto FIAT Car Factory, Turin
On this trip from Lausanne to Tuscany, we stayed in the city of Turin (Torino) in two hotels which was not our usual practice. The reason for changing was because the second hotel is housed in the iconic, historic Lingotto FIAT car factory. Built in the 1920s by FIAT, Lingotto was then the largest and most…
Rest In Peace, Mr. Sakamoto
News came earlier today (April 2, 2023) that Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一 died on March 28 of colon cancer. I (Chris) am saddened by his passing as he was a musician that I have been following since the late 70’s. I still have these vinyl LPs bought 40 years ago. He was a founding member of…
Soul Kitchen, fine vegan dining in Turin
Soul Kitchen is located in Centro in Tuin (Torino) with an unassuming frontage on Via Santa Giulia. We walked there from our hotel. One of our friends traveling from Lausanne with us to Torino in Northern Italy, is a vegan. He was so happy with this fine dining vegan restaurant that he went there a…
National Cinema Museum at Mole Antonelliana, Turin
Turin (Torino) was the first stop of our journey from Lausanne to Tuscany. One of the two National museums we visited in Torino was the National Cinema Museum (Museo Nazionale del Cinema) housed in the Mole Antonelliana, an iconic landmark that we had not heard of before our visit. Since the work started in 1863,…
Road Trip from Lausanne to Tuscany – First stop: Turin (Torino)
After the pandemic faded in Europe, we took a road trip from Lausanne (in Switzerland, where we lived) to Tuscany. The 2-week long round trip took us across the Alps, south to the Mediterranean Sea where we made stops along the Ligurian coast before heading inland towards Tuscany. The towns where we stayed overnight were…
