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Revision as of 05:13, 26 March 2002 by 62.211.19.211 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Turin (Italian Torino) is an industrial city in Northern Italy, home to the headquarters and main production lines of the car company Fiat.
Its origins are today supposed more ancient, but it was developed in roman age, when romans created there a military camp (Castra Taurinorum), later dedicated to Augustus (Augusta Taurinorum). The typical roman urbanistic structure (cross-angled roads), still is charachteristic of the town.
One of its main symbols is Mole Antonelliana while in the Turin Cathedral is saved the Shroud of Turin, an old linen cloth with an imprint of a man, by many believed to be the cloth that covered Jesus in his grave.
The city is famous for its soccer teams (Juventus and A.C. Torino), and will host the 2006 Winter Olympics. During the fifties, in a terrible air accident, the whole football team of Turin (then one of the most important of Italy) was in a plane that hit the church of Superga , on the Turin hills. Among those who lost their lives, Valentino Mazzola, father of Ferruccio and Sandro Mazzola (later football champions them too).
Turin produces a typical chocolate, named Gianduiotto after Gianduia, local mask.
Turin has near 1,000,000 inhabitants.
In Torino you can found the Museo Egizio, one of the most important collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world.