An open-air museum to stroll through, enjoying the colours and sounds of the city.

Discovering Torino means exploring twenty centuries of history. Walking along its streets is like visiting an open-air museum.
Palazzo Carignano, designed by Guarini, was home to the first Italian Parliament. Today it houses the Museum of the Risorgimento. Also by Guarini in the Baroque Piazza Carignano is the Galleria Sabauda and the Egyptian Museum, which, founded in 1824, is the world's oldest and the second most important. It houses more than 30,000 items, including the black granite statue of Ramses II, the tomb of the architect Kha and a large collection of papyruses and objects.
In Piazza Castello, Palazzo Madama houses the Art Museum, currently being restored. Opposite is the church of San Lorenzo, and to the right the Royal Palace. Alongside the cathedral is the chapel of the Holy Shroud with the Dome by Guarini. The Holy Shroud has been conserved and periodically displayed here since 1864: an object of pilgrimage revered as Christ's funeral shroud, but also an object of historical and scientific interest.
Following the new wing of the Royal Palace, one reaches the Palatine Gates, the entrance to Roman Torino. To the right are the Museum of Antiquity and the Royal Gardens. Going back towards Piazza Castello is the Royal Armoury, with one of the world's most important collections of arms. Behind the State Archive and the Teatro Regio is the area of the Cavallerizza, and in the same direction one can admire the Mole Antonelliana, the symbol of the city.
Torino and Piedmont have eighty museums which can be visited with a single ticket - the Carta Musei, the first initiative of this kind in Italy. At the museum dedicated to Pietro Micca, the system of tunnels below the old citadel can be visited. The Museum of Marionettes possesses 10,000 items; the "Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia" Automobile Museum should not be missed, while the "Duca degli Abruzzi" National Museum of the Mountain is an attraction for mountain lovers. Torino also has major art collections with works by Leonardo, Antonello da Messina, Beato Angelico, Mantegna, Pollaiolo, Van Eyck, Rembrandt and Van Dyck. The Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAM) is the second most important gallery of its kind in Italy, with more than 5,000 paintings and 400 sculptures. Just outside Torino, the Castle of Rivoli hosts exhibitions of international standing, and a permanent display of Italian and foreign artists from the 1950s to today in the Museum of Contemporary Art.