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The Porta Palazzo, Europe’s biggest open market, sits on the Piazza della Repubblica, Turin’s biggest square. The market is open six days a week and its hundreds of stalls attract thousands of visitors. The enormous octagonal piazza is criss-crossed by tram lines and usually clogged by delivery vans, empty pallets, full boxes of fruit and vegetable...

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Turin is the historical first capital of Italy, a city where a captivating tale unfolds amidst its industrial roots. The urban modern chic transcends the ordinary, intertwining magnificent architecture, a noble chocolate culture, and the enduring legacy of the iconic Fiat car brand. Unearthing its hidden treasures makes it a haven for discerning tr...

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On May 18th, B.Energy hosted a delegation led by Professor John Taylor and seventeen students from Wayne State University of Detroit (MI) School of Business, Global Supply Chain Department. The visit to B.Energy gave them a complete overview of the industrial production cycle by analyzing waste management issues and technologies. Particularly inter...

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Italia has many fascinating regional coffee drinks and traditions. Let’s begin at the top of the boot and explore a few. In the Italian northwest Aosta Valley near France and Switzerland, one can enjoy a Caffè alla Valdostana.  This popular coffee drink includes sugar, lemon peel, cloves, cinnamon and juniper.  Traditionally drank from a wooden cup...

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Totally blind for 30 years, he recovered his sight after an extraordinary surgery. It happened at the Molinette hospital in Turin where an 83-year-old underwent an autotransplantation of the entire ocular surface (cornea, part of the sclera and the conjunctiva) from one of his eyes. The elderly man had first lost sight in his left eye – due to irre...

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Netflix's new period drama, The Law According to Lidia Poët, follows Lidia Poët (Matilda De Angelis), the first woman attorney in Italy. Did Lidia Poët really exist? Is the Italian show a true story? The answers: Yes and kinda! Poët was born in 1855 in Traverse, Italy, the youngest of four brothers and three sisters. She attended the University of...

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Turin, 1931. A few feet from where Antonio Carpano was said to have invented vermouth nearly 150 years prior, the Taverna del Santopalato  — that’s the “Tavern of the Holy Palate” — opened with a braggadocious bang. If we’re to believe the contemporaneous report from Italian daily La Stampa, March 8, 1931 would remain “impressed in the history of t...

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Who was Lidia Poët? Lidia Poët endured humiliation and sacrifice to pursue her desire to be a lawyer, and she ultimately succeeded. From Turin, she was the first woman in Italy to register as a lawyer. She was disbarred precisely because she was a woman, but she found a way to continue her work. It was not until she was 65 that she was finally able...

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Speed skating for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics might be moved to the 2006 Turin Olympic oval or a temporary facility elsewhere after the IOC rejected plans to build an expensive roof over the outdoor track at Baselga di Piné. Costs for the roof were initially slated at $54 million, according to a project announced in November. But there were con...

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A new autism gene has been found in an Italian-led study, Turin university said Friday. The international study was led by the northern Italian university and its Città della Salute along with the university of Cologne in Germany. Published in the journal Brain, the study showed that mutations in the Caprini gene are responsible for alterations in...

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