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This is a very pleasant walk that begins at the Venaria Reale, a very characteristic district of Turin, because it was a former royal residence. Here you can visit the Royal Palace, the Gardens, the Castello della Mandria, the Borgo Antico and the Royal Residences of Savoy. The path starts from the Royal Palace and goes into the La Mandria Natural Park. For more information see: https://lavenaria.it/

This walking tour consists of half a day of relaxing walks and sightseeing in this fascinating city. It develops through most of the highlights of the center: icons, monuments, squares, pedestrian areas, buildings and parks within easy reach. Founded by the Romans in 26 BC as Augusta Taurinorum - which means "bull" - Turin is an important Baroque city that still retains the classic pattern of the Roman grid with straight streets like a "grissino", the typical breadstick that was invented...

Rivoli is the Roman mansio ad octavum, located near Cascina Bastone, where the Church of Santa Maria de Strata once stood: the moraine hill is the background to the route of the via ad Galliam, witnessed by archaeological excavations of a mansio and a necropolis. However, the ancient Rivoli gathers around the hill dominated by an 11th-century fortress, which over time underwent renovations and extensions, particularly in the Baroque era thanks to the intervention of the court architect...

After crossing the Po at the height of the Great Mother of God, you walk along the right bank of the river, through the Michelotti Park and the Meisino Nature Reserve, and continue to San Mauro Torinese, already known in Roman times as Pulchra Rada for the favorable position on a navigable stretch of the Po. In 991 Anselmo di Monferrato promoted the reconstruction of the Benedictine abbey of San Mauro di Pulcherada, previously destroyed by the Saracens: built on a pre-existing Roman...