Restaurants, historic bars, music, art exhibitions and street theatre in a torino that knows how to entertain.

Even in everyday life, Torino has a thousand faces: a serious industrial city but one with an unexpected charm and joie de vivre. Historic cafés are places of tradition and culture, worth visiting in order to relax in their period furnishings and feel the atmosphere of the real Torino. Here you can drink the classic "bicerin", a combination of chocolate, milk and coffee made fashionable in the 18th century.
And what if you are in Torino at cocktail hour? You must not miss one of the moments when the torinesi meet, maybe in one of the many outdoor bars where you can enjoy the city's natural beauty and architecture.
Torino offers high quality restaurants, with an eye on tradition and extraordinary local products: cheese, wild mushrooms, truffles, chocolate, and prestigious wines like Barolo and Barbaresco. After dinner, the bars along the Po bustle with light and noise. Every night, music, art exhibitions and street theatre are an astounding part of city life.
Torino is attracting an increasingly international public, thanks to events that involve the whole city: Big 2000, a biennial review of emerging art, gives over public spaces to young artists from all around Europe; Luci di Artista, held every year during the Christmas festivities, sees the streets and squares of the city decorated by light installations designed by famous artists.
Since 1988, tourism promotion, reception, information and assistance have been co-ordinated by a public agency. Turismo Torino organises information and reception points, handles international tourist communication and creates ad hoc programmes for the promotion of permanent attractions and special events.