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