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The guide... What is it?

What you will find in the following pages is a guide created by the youth for the youth, close to the youth’s tastes, needs and passions. (see the project)
For the young people who took part in the project (its authors) telling about Turin in their own way - using the vocabulary and the direct and lively syntax of their slang -  was a unique experience.

While surfing the guide you’ll be able to find a lot of useful information to enjoy "young people's Turin", that is the places where you can have the best aperitifs, such as the ones in the Quadrilatero ( the Roman square mile), the restaurants where you can spend the rest of the evening, the most haunted young people’s clubs (for example at Murazzi), the shops where you can buy the clothes you've seen on Turinese boys and girls.

Moreover, did you know that Turin is a city with a considerable number of records? Have a look at the Nose section and you’ll be amazed!!!

Are you a good observer wondering what that beautiful palace is called? In the Eye section you’ll surely find an answer.
In case your eye isn’t very sharp, look for different points of view!!!

Are you planning a tour of the city centre? Visit the Itineraries section and plan your own itinerary!

And what if while you’re walking someone tries to "baccagliarvi" and you can’t understand what it means? Follow our advice. Maybe the Ear section is worth a visit!

If "Palaisozaki" sounds like a Japanese dish, the Olympic Turin section is what you need.

Finally don’t miss the section about famous Turinese with interviews to sportsmen, muìsicians, journalists.
Just to mention some of them: Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus’ forward), Max Casacci (Subsonica’s lead guitar), Marco Berry (*Le Iene’s Magician), and Franco Neri (*Zelig’s Man from Calabria).

* Le Iene and Zelig are very popular TV programmes

How to use the guide

Getting to know something involves above all experiencing it: youths are well aware of this.
"Feeling" things is an infallible way of making them our own and never forgetting them, because when you’re young the heart and body are more important than the rational mind.

For this reason, and because the number 5 is significant in respect to Turin 2006, the code adopted by the guide is:

5 senses - 5 circles (Olympic).

Therefore:

• Eye to highlight museums, palaces, and original points of view on the city;
• Nose to poke your nose among historical facts and anecdotes, legends and popular beliefs;
• Ear to take you to the best places, at the centre of Turin’s entertainment and night life, where you’ll be able to listen to good music and decode the conversations of young customers
• Hand to recommend boutiques, shops, markets where you can "touch and crumple" before buying - and to tell you all about sports and social commitment;
• Mouth to get to know tastes, places, habits and typical dishes of Piedmontese cookery;

And then the section

• Sixth sense because the youths’ sensitivity and intuition have enabled them to imagine all the practical information you may need when staying for some time in a foreign city (hotels, emergencies).

The guide is arranged in two main sections: the Itineraries and the 5 senses.
The Itineraries suggest 9 different routes around town, mainly along the streets and squares of the centre - but not only.
The criterion of the 5 senses has been followed here too.

Each itinerary includes:

• A short description of places pointed out
• Being Turinese, pages dedicated to the peculiar and characteristic spirit of the itinerary’s area, to narrate the connections between urban spaces and those living them.

The 5 senses are, instead, theme centred sections focussing on important aspects of the city, its life, art and culture.
They are more narrative parts, suitable for reading at leisure, to get to know Turin and the Turinese better.

In the middle, between the Itineraries and the 5 senses, the Quarter Tour, to go beyond the town centre, to meet effervescent suburbs, full of contradictions and fascination.

At the end, Olympic Turin to revisit all the milestones that have led us here today, to the Winter Olympics, and to tell of the city’s transformation, its building works and competition sites.
To know what was there yesterday, what you’ll find today and what will be there tomorrow.
Because in Turin everything changes and transforms itself.

Last, the Sixth sense: a handbook full of useful information, looking at the entire city at 360 degrees.
Now you’ll be able to recognise the young side of the austere Savoy city too, regardless of your real age.