APE - ANIMAL PROTECTION IN EUROPE - COMENIUS 2010/2012 ITIS PININFARINA - MONCALIERI, TORINO - ITALY SYNOPSIS OF OUR PRODUCTION PRESENTATION OF OUR COUNTRY ITALY, OUR COUNTRY The country is situated at the meeting point of the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate, leading to considerable seismic and volcanic activity. There are 14 volcanoes in Italy, three of which are active: Etna, Stromboli and Vesuvius. Vesuvius is the only active volcano in mainland Europe and is most famous for the destruction of Our country: Pompeii and Herculanum. Italy's capital, Rome, was for centuries the political centre of Western civilisation as the capital of the Roman Empire. After its decline, Italy endured numerous invasions ITALY by foreign peoples, from Germanic tribes to the Normans. Centuries later, Italy would become the birthplace of the Renaissance, an immensely fruitful intellectual movement that shaped the Itis Pininfarina subsequent course of European “APE” thought. 1 4 PIEMONTE, OUR REGION Piemonte is surrounded on three sides by the Alps, including Monviso (Mont Vis), where the Po rises, and Monte Rosa. It borders France, Switzerland and the Italian regions of Lombardy, Liguria, Aosta Valley and Emilia Romagna. The geography of Piedmont is 43.3% mountainous, along with extensive areas of hills (30.3%) and plains (26.4%). Piemonte is the second largest of Italy's 20 administrative regions, after Sicily The ALPS in Piemonte – MONVISO mountain: the source of the PO, 3 the longest river in Italy 5 TORINO: MOLE ANTONELLIANA MOLE ANTONELLIANA TORINO Since 2000, the building has housed the Museo Nazionale del Cinema (National Museum of Cinema). The Mole appears on the reverse of the two cent Italian euro coins and was the inspiration APE – Itis PININFARINA for the official emblem of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. On one side of the four-faced dome, the first Fibonacci numbers 1 are written with red neon lights: they are part of the artistic 6 work Il volo dei Numeri ("Flight of the numbers") by Mario Merz. TORINO: PALAZZO MADAMA Overlooking Piazza Castello, the section built by Juvarra constitutes today a scenographic façade screening the rear part of the edifice, which has remained unchanged. On the exterior, Juvarra expressed what was intended as a magnificent architectural preamble to an edifice that was never built. Powerpoint Templates Page 2 Powerpoint Templates Page 8 TORINO: THE ROYAL PALACE The Royal Palace of Turin or Palazzo Reale was the royal The Chapel of the Holy Shroud, the palace of the House of Savoy. In the reign of Emmanuel current resting place of the Shroud of Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528-1580), the site was once part of Turin, was added to the structure in an old Bishops palace in the center of the new capital of 1668-1694. In 1946, the palace was claimed by the Italian Republic and Savoy, Turin. From this palace, the Duke was able to monitor made a Museum of the life and works the two entrances of the city - the Palatine and Pretoria gates. of the House of Savoy. Its rooms are decorated with rich tapestries and a collection of Chinese and Japanese vases. It contains 3 different styles: baroque, rococò, and neoclassical, because of the presence of different architects who worked for the Savoy during the centuries, among whom: Filippo Juvarra, Benedetto Alfieri and Pelagio Pelagi. Powerpoint Templates Page 3 Powerpoint Templates Page 6 TORINO: SAN LORENZO'S CHURCH In 1563 Turin became the capital of Savoy and in 1578 Emmanuel Philibert brought the Holy Shroud for the first time from Chambery to Turin, where it has remained, to encourage the pilgrimage of St. Carlo Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, who came on foot to worship the Holy Shroud in thanks for the end of the plague. For the occasion, the Shroud was placed on the altar in the chapel of San Lorenzo. The poet Torquato Tasso was at the Mass and he wrote a commemorative poem. Full length negative of the shroud Powerpoint Templates Powerpoint Templates Page 8 Page 4 The Cupola TORINO: VALENTINO PARK AND THE MEDIEVAL VILLAGE THE MEDIEVAL VILLAGE OF VALENTINO PARK is where you can feel the sensation of living in the 5th century. VALENTINO PARK AND By just walking along the banks of river Po, observing the thousand THE MEDIEVAL VILLAGE colours of the hill, you will suddenly be cast into the Middle Ages. The Medieval Village was designed APE – ITIS PININFARINA by a group of artists and intellectuals coordinated by Alfredo D’Andrade, and built on the occasion of the Italian General Exposition in 1884. The look, the structure, the finishes and the decorations of the Village are a scrupulous reconstruction of 5th century buildings of Piedmont and Aosta Valley. Inside you can see the reconstructions of various craft workshops, the Pomegranate fountain ("Fontana del Melograno") and the castle of the lord, similar to Fenis castle. The visit to the Stronghold evokes the atmosphere of the age. MAGICAL TORINO When you look at Turin through the eyes of magic, you discover a But evil is always lurking about different city: a secret and underground one. This Turin is literally – some believe that the gate of hidden under the houses, in the tunnels which run underground, the Royal Palace, framed by the deep beneath the city. equestrian statues of Castor and Pollux, is actually the threshold which divides the city of saints from the city of devils. Page 3 Page 9 BRIEF HISTORY OF TORINO TORINO - the capital ‘at the foot of the mountains’ Venaria reale, one of the Royal Residences that have received the denomination as World Heritage Sites by Itis UNESCO Pininfarina 1 10 - Texts and pictures: either personal or reproduction authorized by the legal owner. .