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Turin Vacation Guide

Torino (Turin) is a major industrial city as well as a business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located the west bank of the Po River. The population is 920,000. Turin is well-known as the home of the Shroud of Turin, one of Italy's biggest football clubs Juventus FC, headquarters of Fiat automobile manufacturer and host of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. It was the first capital of Italy. Capital of chocolate, have the most old and important museums of the world, like the Egyptian museum, the museum of Cinema (in the Mole Antonelliana building) and the first Cinema in the world. The city is located in northwest Italy. It is surrounded on the western and northern front by the Alps and on the southern front by the hills of Monferrato.
Turin has a truly continental climate, with nothing to share with the rest of Italy which is famous for its comfortable Mediterranean climate. Winters are cold and dry, summers are cool in the hills and hot in the plains. The city is a major industrial center, where the headquarters and main production lines of the car companies are located. Other companies founded in Turin are Lancia, Pininfarina, Bertone, Sparco, Italdesign, Ghia, Iveco, ZK, Intesa Sanpaolo, Superga, Invicta, Lavazza, Martini, Kappa and the chocolate factory Caffarel.
The city is also well known for its aerospace industry (Alenia).
Turin is also the birthplace of some of the country's main companies, such as Telecom Italia and Rai tv.