Guida a Torino - The Authors
Light heartedly and with the desire to be in some way protagonists.That's how we began this journey.
Indeed, roughly two years ago,Turin Council (Youth Policy Sector - "Ragazzi del 2006" Project) and the Technical-Commercial school "Rosa Luxemburg" asked us, youths of Turin, to narrate and reveal our city.
To write a guide created by the young for the young (young tourists arriving in Turin for the occasion of the 2006 Winter Olympics, occasional young tourists, young students or workers residing in the city, young commuters, etc.).
A guide for all of them... and for all of us!
A unique adventure, an opportunity not to be missed that saw all of us,"Ragazzi del 2006" and ITC "Rosa Luxemburg" students, happily adhere.
Light heartedly, as we said earlier and with a pinch of desire to be protagonists.
We shared the light heartedness of those who don’t need to make a living from writing guidebooks and also don’t have publicity or marketing rules to respect.
Protagonists because we were free to narrate "our" Turin, the exceptional one but also the one we experience in our everyday lives.
Therefore together, whether Turinese by birth or by adoption, we roamed and wandered around, took photos, interviewed.
To meet Turin and the Turinese, to bring what being Turinese means out into the open, that mix of qualities so hard to define (which definitely exists!), to tell the colours, the moods, the stories of a real city.
Young Turin could only be like this, natural and fresh.We observed, listened, tasted, touched, and poked our noses in.
As if it had been the first time.We observed, listened, tasted, touched, and poked our noses in.
All with the depth and the experience that those who live in a place can have.
We used all our senses to (re) discover a city belonging to us that we belong to.
A young, useful and Turinese guide.This is what we wanted to achieve and what we hope to have done.
However, we did not want a complete guide.
Because a complete guide is a chimera.
And especially because you cannot programme everything.
Chance, the unforeseen and the unknown are all in the nature of a journey.
And there can be no guide, book,map or timetable to take them into account.
A journey is movement, always becoming.
Therefore, having a healthy allergy towards package trips consumed by hurried and often superficial tourists, we’ve preferred a "partial" guide.
One that we have looked at, listened to, tasted, touched and poked our noses into.
-The youths in the editorial staff-