Regional Wine Cellars
The 12 Enoteche (Wine Cellars), Botteghe del Vino (Wine Shops), and Cantine Comunali (Town Cantinas) open their doors every year to thousands and thousands of Italian and foreign tourists as well as good wine lovers who want to get to know the precious products from Piemonte oenology. They are the ideal showcase to put local producers on display and a reference point for worshippers of Piemonte wine, but they also house small ethnographic vine-growing and wine-producing museums and restaurants that offer the best of the Langhe, Monferrato, Asti, Vercelli, and Novara cuisine.

The regional wine cellars (Enoteca dei vini della provincial di Torino - Wine Cellar of the Wines from the Province of Torino, Enoteca Acqui “Terme e Vino” - Acqui “Spa and Wine” Wine Cellar, Enoteca di Barbaresco, Enoteca del Barolo, Enoteca di Canelli e delle Terre d’Oro, Enoteca piemontese Cavour, Enoteca Colline del Moscato, Entoteca Gattinara e delle Terre del Nebbiolo del Nord Piemonte, Entoteca del Monferrato, Enoteca del Roero, Enoteca della Serra, and the Enoteca regionale di Nizza Monferrato) are also the seats of cultural and tourism events, conventions, and exhibits tied to the territory and to its wines.
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Places
Biblioteca Reale di Torino
The Biblioteca Reale (Royal Library) houses important collections of manuscripts, illuminated manuscripts, and engravings. Besides its 2,000 drawings, it has several drawings by Leonard Da Vinci, among which are: the Self-Portrait, the Volto dell’Angelo (the Angel’s Face), the preliminary drawing for the Vergine delle Rocce (Virgin of the Rocks), and the Codice sul Volo (Codex on the Flight of Birds).
Castello di Mazzè
In the ancient underground parts of the medieval castle is the Museo della Tortura (Museum of Torture): tools and methods from the Holy Inquisition. The building is surrounded by a large park with a scenic view looking out over the Canavese.
Sacro Monte di Crea
Built at the end of the 1500’s, the Sacro Monte di Crea has 23 chapels and 5 hermitages scattered throughout the woods and connected to each other by paths. The chapels narrate the life of the Virgin Mary and house extraordinary life-size statuary groups.
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People
Carla Bruni
"I like Torino. It’s alive, beautiful, not at all austere. Plus, it’s creative. Art moves me, even if I am an amateur. I know music well; I breathed it in at home with mom who dedicated herself to classical concerts and my father who composed dodecaphonic pieces."
Cristina Tardito
"Torino is a somber and very refined city that knows how to combine the ancient splendor of Palazzo Madama with the modern rush of the Olympic sites. I would like to take foreigners out on a Torino bar hop or take them out on the Po in a canoe."
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
"When we arrived at Piazza Castello, immersed in its new light, we said to each other that it was time to set the dolly up here for the camera."
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