Turin was the first capital of modern Italy, and was the host of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. While it's not a famous cultural city like Florence or Rome, the setting is pleasant, with the Po River flowing through the city, the genteel hills overlooking the city and scattered with pleasant villas and the Italian Alps off in the distance.Turin is an important city of technology and industry, and the FIAT automobile company is based here. (The 'T' in the name stands for Torino).Turin inhabitants are well known across Italy for their understatement and confidentiality and the city reflects this attitude.Somebody says it's the European capital of Baroque: many palaces and churches were built in this style during the kingdom of the Savoia. It isn't the typical Italian city, with red and yellow buildings: is a bit more French; wide boulevards with white buildings make the city centre more similar to Paris.Turin is trying to attract more tourists, and so there are many events that worth a visit. http://wikitravel.org/en/Turin