Turin (ita)

Turin

Turin ranks 63rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Glasgow, Bucharest, and Liverpool. Memorable people born in Turin include Amedeo Avogadro, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, and John Bosco. Memorable people who died in Turin include Amedeo Avogadro, John Bosco, and Cesare Lombroso. Turin has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many politicians and soccer players. Turin is located in Italy.

Turin 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 from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alpine arch and Superga hill. The population of the city proper is 843,514, while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. Read more on Wikipedia