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the train goes along Lake Geneva, through Lausanne, Montreux, and Vevay (on the south shore, the French ALps)
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through the Rhône Valley to Brig
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changing trains (and tickets) at Milano Centrale
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I've arrived at last! This is my bedroom at the B&B Al Porta Susa
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Tuesday April 16, 2024
breakfast at the bar next door
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the entrance, staircase, and elevator of my building
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discovering Torino on foot - Via Cernaia
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My first "torèt" - TOrino drinking fountains
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one of many man ychurches and a tram line
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the big market at the Porta Palazzo
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another church and a passage
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the Porta Palatina and its parco archeologico - last remaining Roman site (right next to the duomo)
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streets and churches and façades
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Piazza Castello with the Palazzo Reale, glorious façades, and the Palazzo Madama back to back with teh Castello (another formaer Roman gate)
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back at the Porta Palazzo market
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home with lunch from the market
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more streets, piazze, churches and façades (left the Piazza Statuto)
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center : Palazzo Carignano
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on Via Po : those balconies bridging streets and continuing the arcades are everywhere
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teh Via Po ends in the Piazza VIttorio Veneto and the bridge Ponte Vittorio Emanuele I crossign the Po and leading right to the Gran Madre di Dio church
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the Chiesa di Santa Maria del Monte dei Cappuccini (I think), and a drinking fountain in the Parco del Valentino, Torino's big park along the river
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another church and Porta Nuova train station
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more churches, streets, and façades
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two little torets facing each other!
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the opening times of the Palazzo Scaglia di Verrua courtyard are VERY specific
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another church, the Porta Palazzo in the afternoon, another toret
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, another palazzo courtyard, another church, another arcade (Torino is beautiful but I'm lost) and a bread-and-pasta shop
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a Gelateria in my street - and the gelato is SO GOOD!
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Wednesday April 17, 2024
teh view from my room onto Porta Susa train station adn the staircase (one of the little windows goes to my bathroom)
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the market at Piazza Benefica in CIT Torino (the quarter where my B&B is located)
the market is around the edges of the square
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façades in the CIT Torino quarter
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I'm back at Piazza Castello
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the courtyard of the Palazzo dell'Università
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the Piazza Vittorio Veneto with another torèt
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a tram line, teh Chiesa di Santa Giulia with another torèt
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the Palazzo Fetta di Polenta, a strange very narrow building built by a famous architect (apparently)
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Piazza Vittorio Veneto and Via Po leading back to Piazza Castello
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in the Quadrilatero Romano : la Contrada dei Guardinfanti
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lunch at the Trattoria del Spirito Santo
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more façades, palazzi, and churches
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taking a break in the parco archeologico della Porta Palatina
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This is about the first documented strike (I'll get back to it later).
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There's an entire room dedicated to the items from the grave of the architect Kha and his wife. (All the other graves at the site had been robbed.)
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a board game - a cake - pitches or amphoras (one ahndle = beer, two handles = wine)
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lots of different kinds of food they were provided with in the grave
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monogrammed underwear (so the architect's wouldn't be confused with a labourer's underwear during washing)
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second tour of the exhibits without the guide
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of course I had to check out the cows again
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More cows! In the section of mummified pets!
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So here we are back to the first documented strike - apparently the workers were paid late, or not enough, or both.
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Back to the underwear and the boxes where they were stored (in the grave at least)
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lots of graffiti on the walls in Torino, but this one made me smile (meloni = melons, angurie = watermelons, Georgia Meloni = Italy's prime minister)
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the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino is right opposite the Palazzo del Nuoto
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Thursday April 18, 2024
I bought an Asterix album yesterday fitting the theme of my visit - the B&B
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last breakfast at the bar - these are the pastries I got to choose from
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my little private bathroom (across the hallway) with its window to the building's staircase
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my B&B is on the other side behind the train station and the road
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the Mole Antonelliana, Torino's landmark (also on the Italian 1c coins)
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the elevator is run by the Torino public transport company GTT
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the view from above (~85m) over the town and to the Alps is amazing!
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there's the Piazza Vittorio Veneto and the Via Po
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the highrise is near Porta Susa station - the Castello at Piazza Castello - the Gardini Reali with the Musei Reali
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the ascensore panoramico goes up right through the Museo Nazionale del Cinema
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"The Archaeology of the Cinema"
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and the rest of the cinema museum
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special effects explained
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mor ecourtyards, churches, and piazze (here Piazaz Savoia)
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another church - the Appellate Court - a church at the end of a street
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a message - a statue - antoher gallery
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Via Roma and its expensive shops under the arcades
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the Palazzo Carignano again and the Museo Egizo
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PIazza Carlo Alberto - on one side teh Museo del Risorgimento, on the other, the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria
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the castello on Piazza Castello
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street near my bulding in teh CIT - my building (second floor)
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back at the gelateria La Romana
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Friday, April 19, 2024
the train station Porta Susa is 200m from my B&B - my train was supposed to leave at 6am
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my train to Milano Centrale has finally left
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back at the ticket exchange desk
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my train to Zürich left 40 minutes late and was stopped at the border - a regional train took us to Lugano and in Intercity from there to Zürich
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when we got out of the Gotthard, the snow came all the way down to the train's level
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I think that's already Lake Zürick
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Zürich HB (I had 30 minutes to exchange ticket and get on the train to Paris)
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