Guests Guide

Guests Guide Dear guest, we prepared the following guide to help your moving around in Turin. You will find: 1. An overview: general information and daily programme and budget 2. How to commute between your accommodation and Politecnico; 3. Where to buy the tickets; 4. How to reach the city center; 5. Where to have dinner; 6. Other useful information We hope this guide will be helpful and we’ll wish you a very good staying. An overview: At your arrival at Torino airport, a taxi will drive you to your accommodation: Campus San Paolo. Caselle Airport Campus San Paolo (your accomodation) Politecnico di Torino City Center Urban Area Useful addresses: via Caraglio, 97 www.campussanpaolo.it Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 www.polito.it AIRPORT transfer: Upon your arrival a taxi-van will come at the arrivals with a sign “UZ DOC 2.0”. In case of any problem you can find his contacts here: Tramontana Beppe - mobile phone: +39 333 634 5807 He’ll drive you to the Campus San Paolo – address: Via Caraglio 97 The hotel check in is expected at 14.30. It will be possible for you to leave your luggage in a deposit room. The reservation is registered as UNICA -Network of Universities. Considering that you’ll arrive on Sunday, you’ll have spare time to spend in the city. JOB SHADOWING Programme: Job shadowing venue: Corso Castelfidardo, 39 You’ll find the detailed Programme in a separate file. The Programme starts each day at 9:30 a.m. at the Politecnico (Meeting point: Corso Castelfidardo, 39 – 3rd floor – Doctoral School – phone reference: +39 011 090 6095). We recommend you to arrive at 9:15 a.m. in order to start the scheduled activities on time. On the 1st day a colleague of the Politecnico will come to pick you up at the Campus at 8:45 a.m.; the meeting point will be in the Campus San Paolo Hall. In case of emergence, this is his mobile phone: Marco CAVANA +39 3282709381 The attendance is compulsory and you will be required to sing a signature sheet every day. You will also be required to produce a daily report of the activities carried out, on your key learnings and how you’d like to implement these learnings in your home Institutions. The reports will be later published on the internal page of UZ DOC 2.0 website. Timetables: Monday – Tuesday – Thursday: 9:30 a.m. – 17 p.m. Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. – 14:00 p.m.: free time in the afternoon. A colleague of the Politecnico will come with you in the city centre for a visit of the main points of interests and you will be provided with maps and material about the main attractions. Friday: 9:30 a.m. – 15:30 p.m. 2. How to commute between Campus SanPaolo and Politecnico Option 1: bus 58 To go: Bus 58 is passing every 8 min from 7.00 to 12.00 AM Total duration: 17 min To come back: Bus 58 is passing every 8 min from 4.00 to 8.00 PM Total duration: 19 min Option 2: bus 58/ To go: Bus 58/ is passing every 8 min from 7.00 to 12.00 AM Total duration: 18 min To come back: Bus 58/ is passing every 8 min from 4.00 to 8.00 PM Total duration: 18 min Alternatively: by foot Walking from Campus SanPaolo until Politecnico will take you 26 min (2.1 km). 3. Where to buy your tickets Generally, you can purchase your tickets from tobacconist’s, most of newsagent’s and every metro stations. There is also the possibility to buy public transport tickets inside the Politecnico. Be aware of the fact that it is not possible to buy a ticket on the bus/tram or metro. The single journey ticket costs 1,50 € and it’s valid for 90 min. Within those 90 min you can jump on and off any bus or tram you need while you can only use the metro once. Since you will use at least twice a day the public transport, we advise you to buy the 15-journey ticket already at the airport for 17,50 €, so to save some money. This ticket looks like this: How does it work? Both single journey and 15-journey tickets needs to be validated when you are on the bus/tram or to get your access to the metro. In case of 15-journey ticket: On buses and trams: it is sufficient to pass the card on the yellow area of the machine here depicted. It will emit a sound and a green light will be on once correctly validated. The metro: Similarly to get access to the metro: the picture below shows the validation process to pass through the metro station gates. 4. How to get to the city center Piazza Castello (red dot on the map) is the very center of the city. You can get there by the following combination: : tram 15 (stopping exactly in the main square); : Bus 58 or 58/ (final stop Bertola few steps away from the main square); You can also get to Piazza Castello walking from the other point of interests through the main shopping roads (15 min walk) so to also enjoy the sightseeing of the city. tram 10 (Statuto Nord stop) and then walking down through via Garibaldi; Bus 33 (Porta Nuova stop) and then walking down through via Roma; tram 16 (Piazza Vittorio stop) and then walking up through via Po; tram 15 (Piazza Vittorio stop) and then walking up through via Po; Turin has also a very charming park, called “Parco del Valentino”, where also the original Schools of Engineers used to be, in a very elegant castle called “Castello del Valentino”. Here how to reach it: tram 16 (Valentino stop); 5. Where to eat… Having the chance to stay some time in Italy, we recommend to taste our food! Here listed a few places that we know and use to recommend, together with their address: … pizza: Pizzeria Pummarò – Via Caraglio 130 - Campus San Paolo area Il Picchio – Corso Lione, 40 - Campus San Paolo area Alla Lettera – Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 12 - Centre Tre da Tre – Via Verdi 33 (close to the National Cinema Museum – Mole Antonelliana) - Centre Scalo Vanchiglia – Via Tarino 3 – Vanchiglia Bottega Baretti – Via Sant'Anselmo 28 – San Salvario …typical piedmontese food: I quattro soldi – Corso Castelfidardo, 7 - Politecnico Area Antiche Sere - Via Cenischia, 39 - Campus San Paolo area Le Vitel Etonné – Via San Francesco da Paola, 4 - Centre Casa Broglia – Via Torquato Tasso, 13 – Quadrilatero Romano L’Ostu del Borgh Vej – Via Torquato Tasso, 7 – Quadrilatero Romano L’Acino - Via San Domenico 2/A – Quadrilatero Romano Cantine Barbaroux – Via Giuseppe Barbaroux 13 – Quadrilatero Romano Il porto di Savona – Piazza Vittorio Veneto - Centre Scannabue (€) - Largo Saluzzo 25 – San Salvario … fish restaurant: Trattoria da Anna – via Bellezia 20 – Quadrilatero Romano Osteria Civassa - Via Martiniana, 14 – Campus San Paolo area Other… EATALY, Italian food (to eat and to buy – little store) - via Lagrange 3 – “Centre” EATALY, Italian food (to eat and to buy – big store) - Via Nizza 230/14 – Lingotto (metro to Lingotto stop) 6. Other useful information: Useful Numbers - Taxi / 0115730 / 0115737 - Fire Department / 115 - Ambulance / 118 - Police / 113 Please note that for national calls you have to dial 0039 before the number. The city code for Torino is 011 Banks and Currency Exchange Banks are commonly open from 8.40 to 13.30 and from 14.40 to 16.00, Monday to Friday. The Italian currency is the EURO. The Euro is available in banknotes and coins. The exchange rate is set on a daily basis. ATM / Cash Machines Cash machines are located almost at every bank around the city. Credit cards are generally accepted in most restaurants, hotels and shops. Shops & Museums Shops are generally open 9:00 –12:30 and 15:30 –19:30, closed on Sunday In the city center many shops are open continuously 9:30 – 19:30 Museum closing day is generally on Monday. .

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