POLO REALE, Introduction
- Audio File length: 2.31
- Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
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Language: English / USA
Hi, I'm Ed, your personal guide. Together with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world.
Today I'll accompany you through the Polo Reale, a complex of museums and monuments in the heart of Turin!
The Museum Complex includes the Royal Palace, Library, Royal Armory, Sabauda Gallery, the Museum of Antiquities, Palazzo Chiablese and the Chapel of the Shroud of Turin that's connected to the Cathedral. Your itinerary will start from the monumental Piazza Castello and will cross a wonderful green area, the Royal Gardens, which are Turin's central lung that surround all the buildings of the museum complex.
Look for the big city map under the portico that connects Piazza Castello with Palazzo Chiablese: it's a nice overview of the entire Museum Complex that makes it easy to organize your itinerary and the order you want to visit the various museums in.
The complex takes you through more than 2,000 years of history: from the Roman settlement that defended the Empire's borders, all through the centuries of the House of Savoy's domination, up to the Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy that Turin was the absolute protagonist of....