A special itinerary to discover Turin through many old aspects, to go back at the time of our grandparents, how they lived and turned this beautiful city into a new one, more elegant and fascinating. |
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A nice Restaurant near Po river will be glad to welcome you for lunch.
After this unforgettable morning, we will move to the pier in order to sail over the Po river (only in summer).
Free time for shopping or individual excursion.
Free dinner and stay during the night in Hotel.
4th DAY
SUPERGA OLD LITTLE TRAIN
Breakfast in Hotel.
Free lunch. Meeting point with the guide and transfer to Sassi, in order to move to Colle di Superga with the old “dentiera” (425 metres high), a little, old and real panoramic train. Visit of Basilica of Superga, the majestic work of Juvarra, the famous architect and Savoia graves.
Dinner at “Stazione Sassi” Restaurant.
Transfer to Hotel and stay during the night.
5th DAY
ANTIQUE FLEA MARKET
Breakfast in your bed/breakfast.
Trip to the "Balon" flea market of the past, biggest antique market of Turin held every second Sunday ( twice a month) in the oldest part of Turin.
Here anything can be found ! Interesting antiques or modern pieces are waiting to be discovered it's a collectors dream. Items such as furniture, jwellery, laces, ornaments, silver ware, bone chine are all displayed, this market is
becoming more and more renowed that a lot of the locals go just to brouse and feel the atmosphere.
Lunch in a typical resturant of the aera.
Time free for dinner.
Night accomodation.
Day 6°
After breakfast.
Time free to do some shopping or admire the city centre for the last time until your trip for your return journey
starts.
End of trip. |
1st DAY
THE BEGINNING
Transfer to a characteristic and charming Hotel.
Free time for a walk in the historical centre and also on the city tour bus of Turismo Bus Torino.
Lunch and dinner free.
Stay during the night in Hotel.
2nd DAY
THE ANCIENT COFFEE-HOUSES
Breakfast in Hotel. Meeting point with the guide and transfer to Piazza San Carlo. Let’s start from here the guided itinerary to the main historical cafe’ of Turin: you will visit each of these
old-fashioned “jewels” and you could take all the time to admire the old inlays and fittings.
All these coffee-houses are still telling about the story of Turin, and their celebrated and significative guests for the culture and history of the city.
Walking with your guide, you’ll arrive to Piazza Castello and the elegant Via Roma, where you’ll have the lunch.
At the end of the lunch we’ll have time to see the famous “Mulassano Cafè” for a break coffee, the coffee-house which has imported for the first time the renowned “tramezzino”, a little and special italian sandwich.
At the end of the coffee time, you will have free time to visit with your “Torino Card” some important monuments or a museum.
Free dinner and stay during the night in Hotel.
3rd DAY
THE MEDIOEVAL VILLAGE
Breakfast in Hotel. After breakfast, we will meet the guide and we’ll transfer to the medioeval village. Visit of the extraordinary old village, built in 1884, in occasion of the Italian Artistic and Cultural Exhibition, like a real medioeval castle of Val d’Aosta, in order to protect piedmontese and Aostan artistic treasures.
Inside the medioeval village everything is very realistic: we will deep into the ancient atmosphere walking along little narrow lanes as far as the castle, a building that today is used as a cinematographic set.
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