When Hannibal’s Elephants came across the Alps in 213 BC this is where they came to and destroyed the town. In Torino they remember it as if it was yesterday, and to this day you won’t find elephants on the streets.

Strategically located and surrounded on three sides by the “Choir” of the Alps where two rivers, the Dora and Stura, join the Po this is the roman garrison town of Augusta Taurinorum, which in 1563, Duke Emanuelle Filberto made capital of Savoy and in 18th Century his successors (who were now also Kings of Sardinia) rebuilt as a Royal Capital in the baroque style to make it unique amongst Italian cities which by contrast are medieval or renaissance in char[...] View original story