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If you need information, useful tips about Turin, Piedmont and surroundings, don't exhitate to contact us via message, we'll answer you as soon as possible!
Do you like discovering Turin m its history, art and architecture? At the end, in the "What I Can Share with Hosts" section, some useful tips for free tours in Turin.

ABOUT US
we live in a popular-multiethnic part of turin and we take care of our area! We try to create connection with the different people that live here organising different activities in a local group...may be you can be involved (if you want).
We suggest a useful website http://www.vivoin.it that informs you about north neighborhood of Turin. There are all events, courses, festivals, news etc etc. Web site is translated in 10 foreign languages. Very useful to discover cozy places in the north area of Turin, and to be involved in lot of local events, often they are free events!

Daniela is an architect and tour guide and speaks English, Spanish, French (only spoken), she can speak some German .
Fabrizio is very good in history, geopolitics , he speaks French and can speak some English.
We have also a son, he is a teenager and it's good in english, and some french

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

HOW WE PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
surfing hosting and participating to groups...mostly, travelling

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
We had positive cs experiences in Italy and during our trips abroad. We was ever hosted by interesting and trusted people...

Centres d'intérêt

Art, journalism, migrant's rights, history, architecture, sports, renewable energies, photography, cinema, geography, handicrafts, tai chi, popular dances, geography, books and books and books, critical mass, baroque music, indipendent music, travel, middle-east/east culture, etc etc

Fab and Daniela love travelling!!
visited 36 states (16%) Create your own visited map of The World

• arts
• books
• architecture
• photography
• dining
• organic food
• movies
• traveling
• cars
• music
• surfing
• sports
• ecology
• geography
• history
• journalism
• tourism
• tours
• iranian culture
• chess game
• tourism and travel

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

We like lot of italian films....and
indipendent cinema of europe, asia, africa and america
"one angel at my table" by jane champion
"little miss sunshine",
"l'uomo in piu" by paolo sorrentino
"la vie revee des anges" by emile zonca
"la mala educacion" by pedro almodovar
"everything is illuminated" by liev schreiber
"l'imbalsamatore" by matteo garrone
"tehran taxi" by pahani
We usually read a lot. Some of our favorite books:
"Napoli '44" by Lewis
"reading Lolita in teheran"
"In Siberia" by Colin Thubron
"L'usage du onde" by Bouvier
"time of gift" by Leigh Fermor
Markaris' books
Freya Stark's books
All books of Anna Maria Ortese

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Knowing the culture mix in middle-east

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

Here the north-turin web site with all events, workshops etc etc daily updated - 10 languiages' translation
http://www.vivoin.it
We appreciate the different cultures! Here a brilliant group pf italian broadcaster, "Casa surace" made a amazing video about foreigners that taste italian foood....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxp_hzq3eIA
they made really interensting italian cooking lessons...here for example how to cook pasta al forno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkkHZZsGc4I

In addition: our house was restored with natural materials...we try to improve materials recicling, use of organic food, and more..
We can share some knowledge in those fields!!

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

Curiosity, friendship, a good laugh and a lot of information about italian history, culture, literature, art, architecture....a touch of italian cuisine, if you like.
Good suggestion to discover our neighborhood, Turin and Piemonte in general.
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FREE TOURS OPPORTUNITY IN TURIN (updated 06/2025)
Turin welcome tour: offered by the tourism office. English, italian and french. Book here https://turismotorino.org/it/visita/eventi/visite-guidate/welcome-tour-la-tua-prima-volta-a-torino
Here in general you can see if there are others free welcome tours https://turismotorino.org/it/visita/pianifica-la-tua-visita/proposte-turistiche/welcome-tour
Palazzo di Città (Turin Town Hall, piazza Palazzo di città, city center). Italian. Free tours on tue, wed, thu at 9.30am -10.30am -2.00pm - 3pm.00; on fri 9.30am - 10.30am. To book a place write a mail to: iniziative.istituzionali@comune.torino.it. More info here http://www.comune.torino.it/consiglio/servizi/visite/
Palazzo Chiablese (Savoy Residence in Piazza San Giovanni 2, city center). Free tours (generally italian, but you can ask also a visit in english) on mon, thu, fri at 2.30pm, 3.30pm, 4.30pm. Write a mail to palazzochiablese@amicipalazzoreale.it. More info here https://turismotorino.org/en/visit/things-to-do-and-things-to-see/royal-residences/palazzo-chiablese
Palazzo Lascaris (noble palace in via Alfieri, city center) free tours once a month, generally on friday. Generally italian. Book here https://turismotorino.org/it/visita/eventi/visite-guidate/porte-aperte-a-palazzo-lascaris
Valentino Castel (Savoy residence at Valentino Park), free tour every saturday. Italian. Book here for single and families https://castellodelvalentino.polito.it/?page_id=5196&lang=en

Pays que j'ai visités

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Yemen

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Italy

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