A sunny day in Torino

Rob one day post marathon -I'd be in bed!

Sculpture near the University

Typical street scene -many streets are long and have a vista- an important monument, palazzo, piazza etc. There is a lot of very structured layout in this city and it works although it can be a bit impersonal -it's about the buildings not the people.

A bit chilly and I forgot gloves -haven't really needed to wear them so far

There are many nationalistic monuments and sculptures -these in front of Palazzo Madama are an example.

Red , green and white plastic boxes strung across Piazza di Citta' by day

and by night

On Mondays many museums, galleries and shops are closed (especially some of the smaller ones) so we decided to go on one of those 'hop on hop off' bus tours around the city.  It was really worthwhile and we had great seats. We wandered around the city for the rest of the day & had lunch at a small cheap restaurant called 'Al Solito Posto' -not up to the standard of our favourite 'Il Solito Posto' in Melbourne but good local food.

Walking along this street you would never expect that there is anything impressive to see.

Then all of a sudden you come across the Mole Antonelliana - currently the home of the National Museum of Cinema.  We're going soon -it was closed when we were there.

  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_Antonelliana

The tour bus driver had this space to get through in a large double decker bus

She had  just centimetres! There are so many skillful Italian drivers who negotiate tiny spaces like this everyday without slowing down - and not many paint scrapes! Pretty impressive

The Po has gone down and everything seems pretty much back to normal