Torino’s history goes back 2,000 years. We did a walkabout to explore a bit of it. The building in this photo is a museum comprised of three buildings: the Roman Porta Pretoria; the castle of Ludovico d’Acaja, and the spectacular front that was added.

Another perspective of the Palazzo Madama and its three distinct components.

Here we are looking down Via Roma, and you can see the arc of the railway station at the far end of the via. It is lined with tony shopping opportunities.

Piazza San Carlo is a beautifully balanced and sober-feeling square. The churches Santa Christina (left) and San Carlo add to the balanced feel.

The classy Torinians even wrap cement blockades in plastic printed with rural forested scenes!

La Dora.

Il Po. La Dora and Il Po flank either side of Via Roma on the way into Piazza San Carlo.

We enjoyed a Frenchy lunch at Adonis Crepes. This is salmon….

This is tuna….

And this is the dessert special of the day!

emJay opted for the Crepe Suzette, which had Gran Marnier drizzled over it…

and then it was torched, flambe (hard to see the flame during the day). Nicely caramelized the sugar on top!

. . . .and believe it or not after a nice little nap, soon it was time for dinner!!! Again, sort of hard to find a place that was open, in a town of 800,000, but soon we were dining  in a restaurant sidewalk dining room (reserved only for Turinian’s . . . but we insisted) TommyH’s head in the foreground.

Our goodbye dinner with the Helkster’s was wonderful . . . among the entrees, Tom had the squid with warm fried potato crisps on top . . .

. . . emJay had the gnocchi with a ragu and pesto sauce . . . we also had our what has now become our standard of two  liters of ‘vino de cassa’, per meal, even without Marci there to help us drink it all!!!!

. . .  and em,Jay and I shared a nice semi-freddo with caramel sauce.

A soft rain began to fall as we walked back along the colonnade protect sidewalks. Hugs all around on the street  corner as we said goodbye to Barb and Tom who are heading back home tomorrow. We have one more day in Turin, then back to Milan via the train.