Turin, Italy 🇮🇹 2023

Date: 5th August 2023

Travelled: 450 kms from Les Arcs to Turin  

Visited: Turin  

Stayed: Campeggio Grinto, €39, N45.00950, E07.67220  

Budget: 75 days @ €83 per day

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After our last mountain village (Gordes in France) we decided to change tact and get away from the French school holiday crowds. There are some cities in the east we missed on previous travels so we decide on a few days driving and exploring as we do.

From south eastern France we take the coast road north-east through the French Riviera around Nice and Monaco and on to Savona in Italy where we spend a night before driving on to Turin. It’s all French autoroutes and Italian autostrada which means tollways so it was an expensive drive.

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Pictured below, the weather in Savona looked threatening but nothing came of it.

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Turin is the home of Fiat and the soccer powerhouse Juventus. Through history everyone has had a piece of Turin at one time or another but Turin is seen as the main driver of Italy’s recovery from WWII as a manufacturing base much of which revolved around Fiat who employed a hundred thousand workers here during the 1950-1980.

The sosta (the Italian term for a motorhome parking place) is 6 kms from the city centre. It’s very expensive in our book but we have a spot in the shade and the scooter has us in the centrum in 10 minutes.

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Pictured below, the Piazza San Carlo. It’s a huge public space and one of many we discover as we wander. Another unique feature of Turin are its arcades or colonnades that allow you to walk virtually anywhere in the city centrum either out of the rain or in shade depending on the weather.

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Our guide book highlights numerous things to see and do in Turin but the Museo Egizio, the museum of Egypt was number 1 for us. Described as the greatest collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts outside the Louvre in Paris.

It’s only a short walk from Piazza San Carlo and €16 pp and where there.

There are more mummy’s than a PTA meeting, all the signage includes an English version. The history of how and when the finds are documented it just goes on and on.

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Ramesses, Nefertari and their son Amunherkhepeshefare are all here, it’s the who’s who of the pyramid world. In the final room pictured below there are 12 huge stone figures all different but all with the face of a lion.

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After two hours of Egypt we are done. It was amazing having previously done the Louvre and the Vatican Museum who would have thought Turin’s Museo Egizio would harbour so many treasures from the three Kingdoms.

We wander back to a little cafe for a late light lunch (why do Italian tomatoes taste so good) before scooting back to the Hymer for some R+R.

The campsite has a restaurant, so we wander over for dinner which was very good before calling it a night.

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Michael + Pam