Imagine an elegant Italian city with a bit of French je ne sais quoi—that city is Turin (or Torino in Italian). Capital of the northern Italian region of Piedmont, Turin was part of the Duchy of ...

The Palazzo Reale (royal palace) tells the story of Turin’s heyday under the house of Savoy, who made the city its capital from 1562 and the capital of the newly unified Italy in 1861.

The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, houses a fascinating artifact: a massive cloth shroud that bears the shadowy image of a man who appears to have been crucified. Millions of ...

Charles Felix, duke of Savoy, wanted to install a copy of Leonardo’s Last Supper in the Royal Palace of Turin to get as close as possible to the papal ceremony he had witnessed in Rome and the ...