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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).
Villa Scott
The little manor house, one of the most important examples of Torino Liberty architecture, is linked to the name of Dario Argento who set his film, “Profondo Rosso” (“Deep Red”) here – perhaps his most emotional film and the one with the strongest visual effects.
Castello di Aglič
This sumptuous home was built, beginning in 1646 following a design by Amedeo di Castellamonte, by Filippo d’Aglie, statesman, literary man, choreographer, and adviser to Madama Reale, on the ruins of an ancient fortress.
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People
Roberto Faenza
“With its ancient and distressing twilight vice, Torino is the abstract, metaphysical space, the beautiful stranger, aloof and a bit mysterious that I have chosen to bring to the screen for Giorni dell’abbandono based on Elena Ferrante’s novel with the same title.”
Gianni Farinetti
“There must be something in the water. It’s a strange phenomenon, the explosion that has taken place in the past fifteen years: there is a school of singer-songwriters from Genoa or a Roman school of painting, and then there are the writers from Torino… This is a good place to hide. Writing is observing, listening and then retreating into solitude. This is also a city of books, with a thousand bookstores and this exciting quantity of written words causes something.”
Eleonora Giorgi
“For me, it’s like going back to being a little girl, when I used to spend the month of September on my grandfather’s estate in the Monferrato area. I remember the grape harvest with the oxen and baskets filled with grapes… but today’s Langhe area is even more beautiful: they were successful in maintaining an extraordinary harmony.”
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