Only the orographic positioning of Turin already deserves a trip. Turin is an authentic city, a great city locked up in a mount curtain and hills. It is a city of plain, that reflects the expansion of the mountain to the plain of the Saboya dynasty throughout the centuries. But also it is a city with an intact alpine vocation: a concrete and suggestive strongpoint that the difference of any other metropolis European.
In this perfectly level corridor, excavated by rivers and affluent torrents of the great Po river, that indeed in Turin assumes its characteristic dimensions, the genius of Caesar Augusto put the foundations rational of the castrum that is dedicated to him, Augusta Taurinorum: a decisive track, that the architects and engineers of the Dukes and kings Saboya and centuries XIX and XX respected.
With the displacement of the capital of the new Kingdom of Italy from Turin to Florence and Rome, this orthogonal city, drawn into squares, pragmatic and cultured seems to be constructed with a destiny: the one to reconvert its physical and intellectual energies the greater industrial adventure of the century XX, the one of the automobile.
After to have been the capital of Italy and, before Sicily and Sardinia, Turin experimented in its own meat, like authentic city-laboratory that are, the birth of great trust industrialist and a transformation of the hand of a new sovereignty, political and no longer territorial, but industrialist and financier. But Turin also is being prepared to modify the last part of its history: the reconversion of the Lingotto of military factory to advanced temple of the tertiary one is the most evident test. Turin dedicates a new attention to the culture and to its institutions, those that, like the Museum of the Automobile, better interpret the history of the city, its passage of capital of a state bureaucratic-military man on the verge of reference for the industrial development and technological contemporary and perhaps, in the future, Turin serves as model for the management of the inexhaustible resource that is the Italian cultural patrimony.