The weekend before Christmas in Turin. Journey to Piedmont, Italy

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As a Christmas gift to our son, we bought tickets to a match of Juve (what we have to do ... we tifiamo Bologna!) With the condition that if you went to Turin for the match, he would also viewed city.
So we decided to book the train and hotel for the weekend just before Christmas and we enjoyed a Turin illuminated by Christmas "lights of an author" and have the opportunity to buy the last gifts by plunder of local products including chocolate and chocolate different going into antique shops and cafes with a past still perceptible and articles and books purchased in the store cool the Museum of Cinema in the Mole Antonelliana. Other acquisitions we have made in the area of Borgo Dora, where, inside the ancient docks, is prepared a rich Christmas market.
Convenient was the purchase of Piemonte Card for 3 days, which gave us free entry into museums and public transport (except underground) including also the rack that goes to Superga.
Fun and interesting journey of the rack and the observation deck on the roof of the station of arrival.
Charming and evocative museum with Egyptian mummies "smashed" and the gigantic statues of the room lit like a movie.
The elevator to the top of the Mole and the Museo del Cinema within the latter, allow you to move to a warm winter afternoon, watch a movie tricks, magic lanterns and reconstructions of old movie sets.
We have traveled the length and breadth of the old town with its great arcaded streets, squares and we visited the giant royal palace and an interesting exhibition of portraits of women of women of royal families.
For the kids it's fun to also visit the medieval village in the Valentino Park and stroll along the Po, but for our son, of course the best part was to go to the stadium! Fortunately, Juve have won, so we returned to Bologna, all three met.
Hilary