{"id":6541,"date":"2022-04-24T20:02:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:39:12","slug":"giulgiul-lui-iisus-si-torino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/2022\/04\/giulgiul-lui-iisus-si-torino\/","title":{"rendered":"Turin and the Shroud of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I admit, I knew almost nothing about\nTurin. Apart from the Shroud, Fiat and the Winter Olympics many years ago, I\nhad never heard or read about other things\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a destination on which I decided\nmore due to the lack of options, being blocked in Venice on New Year’s Eve. The\nCOVID and the requested green certificates kept many railway employees at home,\nnot working, so you should have seen me going to the train station in Venice\nevery morning and evening to see if any fast train would leave the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The saving solution was a private\ntrain, which took me, via Milan, to Turin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was relaxed, wanting only to walk,\nnot to visit. But\u2026 the plan on the train did not match the one in the town: in\nthe two and a half days I stayed, I did not have the heart not to visit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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view from my room \u2013 in the distance you can see the Alps <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It happened to me before to get out of\nthe blue to certain places on the planet without knowing anything about them.\nOkay, now there is the Google \u2013 the savior, but before the internet, when I\ndidn’t have a guide, do you know what I used to do? I would go to the first\ntobacco shop or the first souvenir shop and look at the postcards. The most handy\nguide ever, believe me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would see what pictures the locals\nput on the postcards, I would turn them over and read the names of those sights\nand then, naively, I would ask the seller: “sorry, where is this in\ntown?”. And that’s how I started exploring the place J.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, before I got to the postcards or\ndid a google search, the hop on hop off tourist bus got on my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course I hopped on, because I just wasn’t going to miss a tour that would help me get a first idea about an absolutely new city for me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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borgo medievale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After freezing for an hour on the open floor of the bus, trying to catch everything I heard in my headphones, I got off and started walking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE TURIN CATHEDRAL<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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I never imagined that I could be so touched by the atmosphere in a church, be it a Cathedral or not! I’ve been inside so many. Some overwhelmed me with their grandeur, others with their history, others with their simplicity, but here, as I went in, I entered the still present Christmas atmosphere, with the Nativity scene (I was there in January).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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artist: Francesco Artese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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