Theatro delle Citta d'Italia

1629

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[Padua]: Francesco Bertelli

Piedmont, in the northwest, is Italy’s second largest region. It boasts high peaks and glaciers, mountain passes such as Montgenèvre and Great St. Bernard, and Italy’s largest river, the Po. It has eight provinces, with Turin (Torino) as the capital. Piedmont is known for wines (Asti and Barolo), chocolates (Ferrero in Alba), cars (Fiat), spas (Acqui Terme), the Slow Food movement, and its historical past: medieval castles like Ivrea, and architectural masterpieces like the Basilica di Superga. The famed Shroud of Turin was transferred to Turin from France in 1578, and first photographed in 1898. The chapel that houses the Shroud in the Cathedral of Saint John is not visible in this 1629 engraving of ‘Turino’, because it was added to the cathedral between 1668 and 1694.