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Turin and the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy.

A province that was an example for all others.
In 1861, after the wars against the Austrians and ended the expedition of Garibaldi in Sicily, ending the long period of political and military struggle that leads to the unification of Italy. On 17 March this year in Turin is proclaimed the national unity and the city became the first capital of Italy. During the Risorgimento had accepted all the exiles who came from every part of the peninsula, had developed a common desire for unity and here was drawn the political strategy that would lead to unification.

The new history of Italy, independent and united, then part from Turin on March 17 to 150 years ago. The city remains the capital for four years until 1865, when the central government of the Kingdom goes to Florence. The headquarters were established in Rome since 1871, when the unification of the country is now finally complete.

In 1911 and 1961, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary and the centenary of national unification, Turin becomes the center of the country: the grandiose celebrations held there for two anniversaries attract over 6 million visitors each. In 2011 Italy will celebrate 150 years and this time Turin celebrates the anniversary with a big event.

Today the Province of Turin from the territorial point of view is one of the most extensive in Italy and is composed of the most common: well 315. Its official seat is the historic Palazzo dal Pozzo della Cisterna is located in Via Maria Vittoria, in the heart of the city, often the protagonist of the story of Turin also in the early years of the unification of Italy. Turin, Piedmont and the whole will have a leading role in the sesquicentennial celebrations of the unification of Italy, which will be yet another opportunity for the further development of tourism and cultural environment.

Turin and Piedmont are waiting for you to live an unforgettable experience. A program of exhibitions and special events in two locations, the Department Repair Shops and Venaria, to tell the history, art, taste, fashion and the future of a great nation: our.

Turin, capital of esotericism.

Since its alleged Egyptian origin is considered the Turin magic city par excellence, filled with legends and secret hiding places, the occult and esoteric symbolism of light and darkness. Where does this take?

According to the most esoteric school followed, Turin is a city "border": that is the only member of both the triangle of white magic (Lyon-Turin-Prague) than that of black magic (Turin-London-San Francisco ). Halfway between the sulfur and incense.

Nostradamus lived in Turin, in the Farmhouse Morozzo Pellerina, now destroyed, "Le Paradis ya ici, l'Enfer, the Purgatoire," says the gravestone of 1556 belonged to him and just found some time ago. Turin, the three states of the afterlife together. Something inexplicable has attracted over time in Turin's elite occultism, from Paracelsus to Cagliostro, Count of Saint Germain to Fulcanelli. Here he lived and worked Rol is considered by many the greatest wizard of 900.

It is said that "those who can" come to Turin to pay homage to the "Grand Old Man," the knower of all secrets, who dwelt in a sort of medieval fortress on the hill. Of course, "who knows" does not speak.

Turin magic city: a myth or a mystery?
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