Adventure Parks
Go from one tree to another through suspended platforms, steel cables, Tibetan and Tyrol bridges, pulleys, ropes and ladders, defy your own balance. And then again physical exercise, sports and concentration together, allowing to live a pleasant open-air adventure. Completing a trail makes you feel a bit like Indiana Jones, or Tarzan, provided that maximum safety standards are guaranteed. In fact, before starting a trail, visitors are given a safety equipment, and there is also a short tutorial during which instructors explain the trail’s characteristics and difficulties. Moreover, adventure parks provide different difficulty levels: easy trails for children who are at least 4, easy treks for all ages and tougher trails for young people and adults.
Spending the day at the adventure park is an original, amusing way to test your aptitude for mountain sports or alpinism. Many companies take advantage of adventure parks to carry team building activities for their employees, while students are brought there to deepen and ease their contact with nature, thus encouraging and consolidating their group identity and test their attitude to mountain sports.
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Places
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.
Castello di Costigliole d’Asti
Surrounded by a large park, the castle houses an international cooking school and the annual “asta del Barbera” (“Barbera auction”) which has become a not-to-miss event for fans of quality wine.
Filatoio Rosso di Caraglio
The Filatoio (Spinning Mill), built between 1676 and 1678, is an extraordinary example of 17th century Piemonte “industrial architecture”. Today, completely restored, it houses the Museo Regionale della Seta (Regional Silk Museum), as well as contemporary art shows.
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People
Andrea Lee
“I married a man from Torino and we have started our family here. You fall in love with it gradually, it’s full of hidden, unknown things ready to be discovered, but filled with perversions as well. It has some very beautiful places…..”
Patty Smith
"Torino is a distinct city, with a lot of character. It’s not like Firenze or other Italian cities that overwhelm you, where you’re overcome by tourists. It is a city that has a very precise personality, a style, a soul."
Alessandro Baricco
"Torino is a place where, in general, things are done with great seriousness and exactness. Even living and dying."
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