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This was a day to think positively about all the great things we'll see when we come back to Turin and not a day to be bitter that almost everything was closed or just ending in Turin on Monday, June 11.
For example, we missed our opportunity to go see the European finals of the Bocuse d'Or which took place in Turin on this day (but we couldn't get tickets in time.) We also saw the very end of what must have been a spectacular car show, including big hot rods
Teeny hot rods
and Italian car babes.
Also most of the museums and other sites are closed on Monday. Nonetheless, we left our hotel in the itsy-bitsy elevator and set off to see the city.
Turin is a city of piazzas...
Palazzos...
And churches.
Well, the actual shroud, in its high-tech glass case, which is in a metal case, under a series of drapery, behind bulletproof glass. Yeah, the 1608 reproduction at the shroud museum will have to suffice.
The inside of the cathedral is a bit of a letdown, although they did have a beautiful polyptich from the Middle Ages.
And a very, um, evocative tombstone from the same era. They also had a confessional with an occupied/vacant sign that looked like a airplane bathroom, but I was too shy to take a picture of that!
Finally we found a few museums that were open. Eric hit the Egyptian museum, which we had heard a lot about in January - it seems that almost every treasure that is not in Egypt is in this museum!
While Arah went to the Cinema Museum, an exhaustive survey of the history of motion pictures as well as the technology used before film. It was amazing, and worth at least half a day... Eric joined to see the building, the Mole Antonelliana. This incredible structure was designed to be a synagogue, and is now the world's tallest museum.
Eric took the panoramic elevator up to the top. This was a glass jewelbox that looked not dissimilar to the elevator in our hotel, but shot straight up through the middle of a five story open atrium, like in Willy Wonka's place. It was hard to photograph.
From the top, this city of courtyards and almost no tall buildings was visible.
We also saw some random fun things
And of course ate - at one of the branches of the Eataly empire for lunch
Where Eric couldn't get Coke, but could get Mole Cola!
We returned to the same restaurant for dinner - more, simple, delish pasta. And another gelato -- coconut and banana for Eric and Passion fruit for A.
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