Italy - Turin, Piedmont & the Italian Riviera (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
Piedmont’s capital, Turin, is an elegant, easy city of baroque palaces, cutting-edge galleries and fittingly fabulous dining. A couple of hours south, Italy’s Riviera has dramatic coastal topography, beautifully preserved architecture and one of Italy’s most memorable cuisines.
Coverage includes: Liguria, Genoa & Around, Riviera di Levante, Cinque Terre & Around, Riviera di Ponente, Piedmont, Turin, The Milky Way, Varallo, the Valsesia, Valle d’Aosta, Aosta, Courmayeur, Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso and Valtournenche.
- explore the largest collection of Egyptian history outside Cairo at the refurbished Museo Egizio in Turin
- discover the art and architecture of a once-great maritime empire in Genoa’s amazing Palazzi dei Rolli
- discuss terroir, tannins and tenacity with the winemakers of the Barolo region
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