Baroque piazzas, the Mole, the Savoy palaces and the best chocolate in Italy. Turin is refined, quiet and wonderfully underrated.
Turin is an elegant, understated city that was briefly Italy's capital, and it still carries itself with royal poise. Baroque piazzas and Savoy palaces anchor a compact, flat historic center, where more than 12 km of arcades let you walk from the station to Piazza Castello almost entirely under cover.
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