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Italy and the Colors of it's Flag
Our italian classes journey through Italy and with the italian language.
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Turin, or Torino in Italian, is in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy and was the host to the 2006 Winter Olympics.
http://goitaly.about.com/od/turintorino/Torino_Travel_Essentials_Tourist_Information_for_Turin_Italy.htm
The population of the city Torin is 908,000.The city is located on the left bank of the Poe River.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino
Torino (Turin) was the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861- 1864, and served as the capital of the Duchy of Savoy and the Kingdom of Sardinia.
http://milan.usconsulate.gov/torino_facts.asp
Turino(Turin)is the capital of Italy's car industry
Source:http://www.bella-torino.com/turin-facts.html
THe mayor of Turin is directly elected every four years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin
Turin was the city where the FISA (international rowing federation) was born in 1892.
www.wikipedia.com
The city has a long tradition of producing fine chocolate
http://www.bella-torino.com/turin-facts.html
The name of Turin comes from Tau
The 1969 film 'The Italian Job,' starring Michael Caine, was filmed in Turin=]
http://reference.aol.com/fast-facts/history/_a/fast-facts-turin-italy/20060130182509990001
torino has its own football club!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino_F.C.
Hannibal and Caesar slept in Turin, Italy. In 218 B.C., Hannibal captured and damaged Turin. Julius Caesar rebuilt the city in 28 B.C.
Source:
http://reference.aol.com/fast-facts/history/_a/fast-facts-turin-italy
Turin celebrates its patron saint in the Festa di San Giovanni, June 24 with events all day and a huge fireworks display at night. (Sounds fun~!)
Source: http://goitaly.about.com/od/moreitaliancities/p/turin.htm
Every year, in Torino, there is a month long music festival called the Mito Settembremusica.
(they have the best symphoney/orchestra in the world! BONUS!)
http://www.comune.torino.it/torinoplus/english/
Turin's population is about 7.1 million inhabitants. It ranks 3rd in Italy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin
Torino is the business and cuture center of northern Italy.
Source: Wikipedia baby ;)
the Municipal Council asks the people of Torino to host one or more of the participants in the delegations of the 1500 food communities from over 150 nations.
as said on http://www.comune.torino.it/en/
Turin is the second city in Italy to host the Olympics.
http://reference.aol.com/fast-facts/history/_a/fast-facts-turin-italy/20060130182509990001
Chocolate was invented in 1678 in Torino.
http://milan.usconsulate.gov/torino_facts.asp
Average Annual Precipitation: 33.7 inches
-http://americanairlines.wcities.com/en/guide/fun_facts/30/guide.html
Today the city is a major industrial center, where the headquarters of the car company Fiat are located
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin
In the Baroque Piazza Carignano is the Galleria Sabauda and the Egyptian Museum, founded in 1824, and is the world's oldest and the second most important. It houses more than 30,000 items, including the black granite statue of Ramses II, the tomb of the architect Kha and a large collection of papyruses and objects
http://milan.usconsulate.gov/torino_facts.asp
NW of italia of the PO and Dora Riparia Rivers.
the name the turin comes from the tau
Torino was named in 2008 for the world design capital
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