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1824 - Museo Egizio (Egyptian museum) founded. 1831 - Gran Madre di Dio, Turin (church) built. [3] 1832 - Pinacoteca opens in Palazzo Madama. [3] [13] 1837 - Royal Library of Turin and Royal Armoury established. [14] 1841 - Società del Whist founded. 1843 - National Historical Museum of Artillery founded. [15] 1848 Gazzetta del Popolo begins ...
Turin's attractions make it one of the world's top 250 tourist destinations and the tenth most visited city in Italy in 2008. The city also hosts some of Italy's best universities, colleges, academies, lycea, and gymnasia, such as the University of Turin, founded in the 15th century, and the Turin Polytechnic. [13]
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Turin: ... such as the University of Turin, founded in the 15th century, and the Turin ...
The most notable among them were Christopher Columbus, who is credited with discovering the New World; [95] John Cabot, the first European to set foot in "New Found Land" and explore parts of the North American continent in 1497; [96] Amerigo Vespucci, who first demonstrated in about 1501 that the New World was not Asia as initially conjectured ...
Football first arrived in the city of Turin at the end of the 19th century, introduced by the industrial Swiss and English.By 1887, Football & Cricket Club—the oldest Italian football club—had already been founded in the capital of Piedmont, followed in 1889 by Nobili Torino.
Other theatres were built and presented seasons of opera in Turin. Among them was the restored Teatro Carignano in 1824. It too was acquired by the municipality in 1932 and, after the destruction by fire of the Teatro Regio in 1936, the Carignano was to serve as the main venue for opera in the city until the Regio reopened in 1973.
In Turin, with the exception of the Reale Società Ginnastica di Torino (founded in 1844, [3] but which did not establish its football section until 1897), [14] the first club was the Torino Football & Cricket Club, founded in 1887.
The University of Turin was founded as a studium in 1404, under the initiative of Prince Ludovico di Savoia. From 1427 to 1436 the seat of the university was transferred to Chieri and Savigliano. It was closed in 1536 following the invasion of the Savoy lands by France, and reestablished by Duke Emmanuel Philibert thirty years later.