Tag: italy
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La Strada Nuova and Palazzi dei Rolli, Genoa
Genoa (Genova in Italian) is the capital of Liguria, Italy’s greatest seaport and birthplace of Christopher Columbus. Since our time in Genova is very limited, we focused on one notable sight, Via Garibaldi, also known as “Strada Nuova” (New Street) or “Via Aurea”. Click ▶ to play Genova was a maritime power in the Middle…
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Porto Antico, Genoa (Genova)
Continuing with our road trip in Italy, after Turin, the next stop is Genoa (Genova in Italian) … if you missed the start of our road trip, click here to join us on this epic road trip. We drove from Turin, the capital of Piemonte, to Genoa, the capital of Liguria, on the A7 motorway.…
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NH Collection Hotels in Turin, Italy
For our stay in Turin (Torino), we took rooms in two hotels consecutively. This was unusual for us as we normally do not want to incur time overheads when travelling. Changing hotel is usually a chore that eats up leisure time. Both hotels happen to be in the NH Collection group. We want to clarify…
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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…
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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…
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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…