The Metropolitan City of Turin ( it, Città metropolitana di Torino,
Piedmontese: ''Sità metropolitan-a 'd Turin'') is a
metropolitan city in the
Piedmont
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Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
. Its capital is the city of
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
. It replaced the
Province of Turin and comprises the city of
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
and 311 other municipalities (''
comuni''). It was created by the
reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and established by the Law 56/2014. It has been officially operating since 1 January 2015.
The Metropolitan City of Turin is headed by the metropolitan mayor (''sindaco metropolitano'') and by the metropolitan council (''consiglio metropolitano''). Since 5 June 2016,
Chiara Appendino has served as the mayor of the capital city, succeeding
Piero Fassino
Piero Franco Rodolfo Fassino (born 7 October 1949) is an Italian politician with the Democratic Party. He was Mayor of Turin from 2011 until 2016 and is a former national secretary of the Democrats of the Left party. . The largest Metropolitan City of Italy, it is the only one to border a foreign state, France.
Metropolitan area
It has an area of , and a total population of 2,211,114. There are 312 ''
comuni'' in the metropolitan area – the most of any province or metropolitan city in Italy. The province with the second highest number of ''comuni'' is
Cuneo
Cuneo (; pms, Coni ; oc, Coni/Couni ; french: Coni ) is a city and ''comune'' in Piedmont, Northern Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the fourth largest of Italy’s provinces by area.
It is located at 550 metres (1,804 ft) in ...
with 250.
Geography
The territory consists of a mountainous area to the west and north along the border with France and with the Valle d'Aosta,
and part that is flat or hilly in the south and east. The mountainous part is home to part of the Hautes Alpes, the
Graian Alps and, to a much lesser extent, the
Pennine Alps
The Pennine Alps (german: Walliser Alpen, french: Alpes valaisannes, it, Alpi Pennine, la, Alpes Poeninae), also known as the Valais Alps, are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps. They are located in Switzerland (Valais) and Ital ...
. The highest point in the Metropolitan City of Turin is the
Roc (4,026 m), located in the
Gran Paradiso massif on the border with Valle d'Aosta.
Several wildlife reserves are located in the province, including the
Sacro Monte Natural Reserve in Belmonte and the
Gran Paradiso National Park. The
Residences of the House of Savoy, located in Turin and several other towns in the province, as well as the
Sacro Monte of Belmonte, are
UNESCO World Heritage Site
A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). World Heritage Sites are designated by UNESCO for ...
s.
Transport
The Metropolitan City has a large number of rail and road work sites. Although this activity increased when the city was chosen to host the
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second ...
, parts of it had long been planned. Some of the work sites deal with general roadworks to improve traffic flow, such as underpasses and flyovers.
Two projects are of major importance and will radically change the shape of the city of Turin. One is the ''Spina Centrale'' ("Central Spine") project, which includes the doubling of a major railway crossing the city, the
Turin-Milan railway locally known as ''Passante Ferroviario di Torino'' ("Turin Railway Bypass"). The railroad previously ran in a trench. This is to covered by a major boulevard running from North to South of Turin, in a central position along the city.
Porta Susa
Torino Porta Susa is a railway station in Turin, northern Italy; it is the second busiest mainline station in the city, after Torino Porta Nuova. It is located in ''Corso Inghilterra''.
History
The station was built in 1868 during the expansio ...
, on this section, will become Turin's main station to substitute the terminus of
Porta Nuova with a through station. Other important stations are
Stura,
Rebaudengo,
Lingotto
Lingotto is the name of a district of Turin, Italy, as well as the name of the Lingotto building in Via Nizza. It once housed a car factory built by Italian automotive company Fiat and today houses the administrative headquarters of the manufac ...
and
Madonna di Campagna railway stations, though not all of them belong to the layout of the Spina Centrale.
The other major project is the construction of a subway line based on the
VAL
Val may refer to: Val-a
Film
* ''Val'' (film), an American documentary about Val Kilmer, directed by Leo Scott and Ting Poo
Military equipment
* Aichi D3A, a Japanese World War II dive bomber codenamed "Val" by the Allies
* AS Val, a Sov ...
system, known as
Metrotorino. This project is expected to continue for years and to cover a larger part of the city. Its first phase was finished in time for the
2006 Olympic Games, inaugurated on 4 February 2006 and opened to the public the day after. The first leg of the subway system linked the nearby town of
Collegno with Porta Susa in Turin's city centre. On 4 October 2007 the line was extended to Porta Nuova. In March 2011 it reached Lingotto. A new extension of the so-called ''Linea 1'' ("Line 1") is expected in the near future, reaching both
Rivoli (up to Cascine Vica hamlet) in the Western belt of Turin and ''Piazza Bengasi'' in the Southeast side of the city. In addition, a ''Linea 2'' is in the pipeline, and it is supposed to cross Turin from North to South.
The area has an international airport known as
Caselle International Airport Sandro Pertini
Alessandro "Sandro" Pertini (; 25 September 1896 – 24 February 1990) was an Italian socialist politician who served as the president of Italy from 1978 to 1985.
Early life
Born in Stella (Province of Savona) as the son of a wealthy landown ...
(TRN), located in
Caselle Torinese, about from the centre of Turin. It is connected to the city by a railway service (from Dora Station) and a bus service (from Porta Nuova and Porta Susa railway stations).
As of 2010 also a
bicycle sharing system, the
ToBike, is operational.
The metropolitan area is served by
Turin metropolitan railway service.
Government
List of Metropolitan Mayors of Turin
Metropolitan Council
The new Metro municipalities, giving large urban areas the administrative powers of a province, are conceived for improving the performance of local administrations and to slash local spending by better coordinating the municipalities in providing basic services (including transport, school and social programs) and environment protection.
In this policy framework, the Mayor of Turin is designated to exercise the functions of Metropolitan mayor, presiding over a Metropolitan Council formed by 18 mayors of municipalities within the Metro municipality.
The first Metropolitan Council of the City was elected on 12 October 2014:
Municipalities
There are 118 municipalities (''
comuni'', singular: ''
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...
'') in the metropolitan city. the largest by population
are:
See also
*
Shroud of Turin
*
House of Savoy
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Italian language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 8 ...
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Piedmontese language
Piedmontese (; autonym: or , in it, piemontese) is a language spoken by some 2,000,000 people mostly in Piedmont, northwestern region of Italy. Although considered by most linguists a separate language, in Italy it is often mistakenly regard ...
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Franco-Provençal language
Franco-Provençal (also Francoprovençal, Patois or Arpitan) is a language within Gallo-Romance originally spoken in east-central France, western Switzerland and northwestern Italy.
Franco-Provençal has several distinct dialects and is sepa ...
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Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
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Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso
Gran Paradiso National Park (Italian: ''Parco nazionale del Gran Paradiso''; ), is an Italian national park in the Graian Alps, between the Aosta Valley and Piedmont regions. The park is named after Gran Paradiso mountain, which is located in the ...
References
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Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...