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In my opinion the Main Sights section is quite incomplete, it basically focuses on the most central neighborhoods of the city. I mean, historical districts such as Aurora, Barriera di Milano, San Donato, San Paolo, Vanchiglia - just to mention some districts close to downtown - are totally neglected, like they've got a minor part in the past and in the present of Turin. Plus the city is going through an important urban renewal in recent years, a renewal that involves several districts from north to south (along the so-called Spina area) and that is changing the look of whole neighborhoods. The whole thing is still "work in progress" for years to come but some neighborhoods have already changed their look by now: for example, big areas in North San Donato, South Borgata Vittoria and South-East Madonna di Campagna districts have turned from industrial neighborhoods to modern residential neighboorhoods, with green parks, shopping services, new streets and so on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.40.33.118 ( talk) 02:51, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
Any legends connected to Turin? I have heard of something called the Gates of Hell. See http://stage.gns.gannettonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060211/OLYMPICS/602110301/1024 for info.
There are thousands of legends about Turin. The city is said to be part of both the white and the black macic triangles (white: Turin-Lion-Prague; black: Turin-London-San Francisco). Precisely the core of the White Turin is Vittorio Square and the one of the Black Turin is Statuto Square. I found an English website in which you'll find something about Turin misteries:
[1]. If you know Italian, I advise you two books:
- "Curiosità e Misteri di Torino" (=Turin curiosities and misteries), by Renzo Rossotti, publisher: "Newton Compton Editori";
- "Giuda Insolita ai Misteri, ai Segreti, alle Leggende e alle Curiosità di Torino" (=Insolit guide to Turin misteries, secrets, legends and curiosities), by Renzo Rossotti, publisher: "Newton & Compton Editori".
They are really interesting: if you can, read them!!!
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Stefano 22:49, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
See this interview with Dr Leo Ruickbie on Turin and the Gates of Hell - it's free to access and in English, and gives a good insight into the whole thing. What about putting up a legends section on the main page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.204.62.30 ( talk) 13:37, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Turin also the city that opposed against Nazi occupation. In March 1944 there were in Turin massive strikes against fascism and nazism. In April 1945 Turin was among the Northern Italian cities in which the Italian Resistance started the actual liberation from Nazi-Fascist troops. Thanks to thousands of partisan troopers, the city actually liberated itself in April 23, 1945, days before the Allies reached the town.
The result of the debate was don't move. — Nightst a llion (?) 12:47, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Turin → Torino – Torino is the name preferred by many Italians and, due to the 2006 Winter Olympics, many English-speakers. The 2006 Winter Olympics have popularized the name "Torino" over the name "Turin" as the city was almost never referred to by the latter during the Games.
69.162.47.55 05:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
You sadly misunderstand the purpose and operation of Wikipedia if you think that first-come-first-served, or popular misusage should guide content. 69.162.47.55 05:19, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
What distinction is there between this and a proposal to move Rome or Florence? Septentrionalis 04:40, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
If you took the time to actually read the response, you would have noticed that the argument was actually pointing out that Peking can change to Beijing by request of the Chinese government without affecting the spelling of Peking Duck. 69.162.47.55 05:14, 2 March 2006 (UTC) Dicussion prior to the official move request follows:
This city has always been called Turin, but all of a sudden, now that the Olympics have been awarded to the city, even the US broadcast networks have started calling it Torino.
69.162.47.55 05:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
The official logo for those winter games uses "Torino 2006", but the IOC still refers to it as Turin. Turin is the original name of the city, you could almost say the media is doing the same work that the fascists started in trying to eradicate Piedmontese. Some english-speaking media is even apologetic about the use of the word Turin.
It's also worth noting that the name of the city in its local language ( Piedmontese) is actually "Turin"; that's not some sort of invented English name. Torino is the Italian name for it -- especially with southern Italians.
69.162.47.55 05:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC) NBC admitted that they chose to use "Torino" because it was sexier and more marketable.
Turin is not even an anglicized version, Turin IS the name of the city before the fascists outlawed Piedmontese.
69.162.47.55 05:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
From "Turin" to "Torino": Olympics Put New Name on the Map James Owen for National Geographic News February 6, 2006
Interesting article, although they fail to distinguish the phenomenon of an actual name change for whatever reasons, a basic but important difference. The article also fails to mention that while the IOC wants Torino to be used when referring to the Games, it is still supposed to be Turin when referring to the host city. Torino sounds better. Turin is ugly and outdated.
In any case, Turin is certainly more accurate - the residents call it Turin. That's what really matters when looking for the actual name of a place.
Turin hosts all universities, but the most famous and the one in which there's the highest teaching level is the 'Politecnico', the engineering faculty. Stefano.
Stefano is right. Only the fashion university is partly detached to milan. Secondary school in turin are made of a large number of scientifical licee and professional schools. The rest is divided between technical school and classical licee. Addictedtobass 09:27, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Addictedtobass
If it interests you, under the specification for only English language results, "Turin" gets 60,700,000, while Torino gets 105,000,000 under the same specification. -- Revolución hablar ver 22:26, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
However, I think it should stay Turin until if the name Torino permanently supercedes that of Turin. -- Revolución hablar ver 22:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
In the opening paragraph, it states: Turin is also well-known as the home of the shroud of Turin and host of the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Surely Torino is just as well known for being the home of Fiat. Although this is mentioned further, does it deserve a place in the opening paragraph. Another piece of information is that it is the home of Juventus. This deserves a mention in the first paragraph as it is a widely-known football club and one of the most succesful and famous in the World.-- iceman 15:25, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
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== Incorrect Piedmontese spelling in English page ==
The piedmontese spelling is not "Türín" but, quite simply, "Turin".
Please see http://www.piemonteis.com/grammatica-piemontese/leggere-piemontese.html (in Italian) for ortographic rules of Piedmontese.
Regards
The first thing I read there is "u=ü"... --
Stefano 14:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
The English version of the Torino Olympics website, again - the English version, refers to the city correctly as Torino, http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/OlympicGames/home/index.html. Just because some media outlets called it Turin, it shouldn't be renamedin their favor. For those who won't give up the incorrect name, google both turin and Torino, you'll find 18 thousand results for turin and 57 thousand for Torino. 64.86.28.37 22:16, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
— The "English version of the Torino Olympics website" seems to have disappeared, an epheermal site for an ephemenal event. There was a big public relations push during the Winter Olympics to rebrand the city "Torino" internationally, but I don't see why PR people should be allowed to decide English usage. Campolongo ( talk) 10:54, 16 May 2008 (UTC)Campolongo
This is ridiculous. Turin is the English name of the city in question, full stop, in the same way that Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, and Naples are the English names of the cities which Italians call Milano, Venezia, Firenze, Roma, and Napoli, and as Piedmont and Tuscany and Sicily are the English names of Piemonte and Toscana and Sicilia, and as Italy is the English name of the country whose Italian name is Italia. Shall we rename the article about Germany "Deutchland"? Is the article about China going to be called "Zhong Guo"? Give it up already. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.6.210.253 ( talk) 19:09, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
The website http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/OlympicGames/home/index.html is dead, so it can hardly be cited as evidence of anything. It proved short-lived, like the whole "Torino" thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Campolongo ( talk • contribs) 13:30, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
"The typical Roman street grid can still be seen in the modern city." is far from enough to describe the uniqueness of this city’s setting. More is needed, especially about the earliest urban settlers.-- Connection 23:51, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Can anybody provide a solid formal proof that it's continental climate the city has? 89.105.151.254 ( talk) 01:59, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm moderately good in Italian, and since the culture section was just far too short, I added some bits from the Italian wiki page [3] (this page), but it isn't very good English, so if someone feels confident to add a far better translation, please do so!-- Theologiae ( talk) 16:33, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Since Turin is one of the main white and black magic capitals of the world, and there is a corresponding paragraph on the Italian wiki, don't you think it'd be appropriate to add a section on Legends, myths or magic in Turin-- Theologiae ( talk) 16:37, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Classic wikipedia bias. Note that the Italian wp article barely has a mention of this author, yet here he's centrepieced with a photo and whatnot. Is he important to anyone outside of the NY Times/New Yorker lit crit circles? Answer: no. Yet another attempt to promote inside the bloated beltway... No, not the DC one. Execreblete ( talk) 05:50, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
User:Stephen G. Brown and 1-3 IP users appear to be violating WP:3RR over how to spell "center/centre". Personally, I don't myself care which spelling is used, but since we seem to be in an edit war, could the editors involved please make their cases on the talk page, rather than merely reverting? (Or, if it does not matter in this article, just leave it alone?) Wabbott9 ( talk) 05:25, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
"Turin, with a metropolitan area of 1.7 million,[38] was the largest city to have ever hosted a Winter Olympics.[39][40] The title fell to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, (2.5 million) when that city hosted the XXI Olympic Winter Games.[41]" That is not correct: since referring to a city and not to a metropolitan area, Turin remains the biggest city ever hosting a Winter Olympics (904.000 inhabitants vs 615.000) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.215.169.20 ( talk) 07:27, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Doesn't seem worth mentioning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.36.217.63 ( talk) 07:09, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
I have made my own contribution to the article and now I list a few things that need some work.
1. "Nowadays it houses the National Museum of Cinema, and it is believed to be the tallest museum in the world (167 metres or 548 feet)."
I don't know how seriously to take this claim since it says "believed". I don't think believing is sufficient. We need a source for the claim.
2. "The Basilica of Superga, with a dome 244 feet high, a work of Juvarra, built by Amedeo II ex voto for the deliverance of Turin (1706), served since 1772 as a royal mausoleum."
This sentence needs to be reworked. I can't quite understand how to fix it.
3. "That is why working in a city of artists of great repute, especially architects and planners like Carlo di Castellamonte and his son Amedeo, which include the route of a Roman castrum the new capital and build beautiful buildings, Guarino Guarini and, in the eighteenth century, Filippo Juvarra and Vittorio Alfieri."
This sentence needs to be completely rewritten. It's truly horrible.
4. "Between the 1960s and the 1970s, the international centre of Turin (Arte Povera), the presence in the city of artists like Alighiero Boetti, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Piero Gilardi and Michelangelo Pistoletto."
This is another ugly sentence that needs revision.
5. "In those years there was a strong artistic influence of the famous designer, Armando Testa, the founder of advertising agency."
This sounds weird. Has Testa really invented advertising agencies?
6. "Baricco was also among the founders of the School Holden, dedicated to teaching the techniques of writing."
This sentence is ambiguous. What kind of writing tecniques are we talking about?
7. "Juventus has the larger fan base, especially in southern Italy, while Torino enjoys a more localised support."
What's the source for this claim?
8. "cultural proximity to France" is almost certainly inaccurate and avoidable. I would eliminate it.
9. "Another established university in the city is the Polytechnic University of Turin, that ranks among Top 50 universities in the world and #1 in Italy ("Academic Ranking of World Universities" published by Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in engineering, technology and computer science fields)."
Should the above say "#1 in Italy for engineering, technology and computer science fields ("Academic Ranking of World Universities" published by Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University)"?
10. "The city has an international airport known as Caselle International Airport Sandro Pertini (TRN), located in Caselle Torinese, about 13 kilometres from the centre of Turin"
The article on Caselle Torinese talks about 14km rather than 13km.
ICE77 ( talk) 01:19, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
The last sentence of the introduction states that Turin 'is often reffered to as "the Capital of the Alps"'. Im am no expert on Turin, but there is no reference to this claim. I know this term only in reference to Innsbruck (Austria) and Grenoble (France); so does Google. From what I understand, neither the English, nor the Piedmontese, nor the German article on Turin mention a term like "te Capital of the Alps". Should be removed? Nevvva ( talk) 16:15, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
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This article lacks a lead image of Turin. It could be a notable Turinese landmark or a collage of city landmarks. I think this page shouldn't go without a lead image. We need something to represent this city. ( N0n3up ( talk) 00:27, 16 November 2016 (UTC))
The image featured under Cit Turin, is outdated. The Grattacielo Intesa Sanpaolo has been completed since 2014, yet the image shows it under construction. Can we put an updated image with the finished tower? Trappy ( talk) 11:11, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Seem the data was contaminated twice in 2017 by 151.32.196.104 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 212.39.89.32 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) . Matthew_hk t c 19:36, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
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