cinema
Encounters – Initiatives
Sguardi in macchina
A prestigious cross between the Museo del Cinema and Torino’s Teatro Stabile is resulting in the Sguardi in Macchina (Glances in the machine) exhibit also known as an innovative dialogue between the scheduled films at Cinema Massino and the performances slated by the Torino-based foundation.
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Places
Forte di Fenestrelle
The largest fortified structure in Europe and the longest wall-structure in the world after the Great Wall of China: a 635-meter inclination, 3 km long, 1,300,000 square meters large, 4,000 steps in the Scala Coperta (Covered Staircase), 2,500 steps in the Scala Reale (Royal Staircase), 5 drawbridges, and 183 lights to illuminate the interior.
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).
Villa Taranto Botanical Gardens
Villa Taranto and its gardens, which look out over Lago Maggiore, have a vast botanical trove that includes about 1,000 plants, which until today had never been cultivated in Italy, and about 20,000 varieties and species of particular botanical importance.
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People
Daniel Birnbaum
“Torino’s most successful work of art? The Mole Antonelliana, it’s obvious. The best works are those that have such a positive meaning that the population absorbs them as a symbol of its own culture. These are works that would be sorely missed, should they be destroyed.”
Caparezza
“And I love eating in Torino, most of all the raw meat. I like this city. I’ve been to the Museo del Cinema three times and even took a walk up the hill. After a few kilometres I was at the top of Colle della Maddalena and could see the entire city.”
Zucchero Fornaciari
“Torino, a city whose public has always given me a warm welcome. I have friends here and I think that Torino natives have a great sense of humour. Of course, you have to pull it out of them.”
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