Much more than Italy's regal seat, this grand city will fill your days with culinary, architectural, and historical riches. Grand piazzas and majestic palaces - Turin was built as a Roman colony on the River Po and fashioned 1800 years later as the seat of Italy's royal family, the Savoy. You'll notice their influence in the sheer proportions of Turin's Baroque buildings and piazzas. Turin's enormous main square, Piazza Castello, is lined with a royal palace, a theatre house

After breakfast, the tramezzini come out. Originally triangles of soft, crustless, white bread, the tramezzino [tra-meh-dzi-no] is now made rolled or wholewheat but the concept remains the same: it's all about the inside, the bread is merely a messenger. Tramezzini are found in glass counters of Italian bars with their fillings on display as little pieces of colourful, culinary art. The perfect mid-meal snack. The tramezzino was introduced to Italy in 1925 when Caffè Mulassan