Good Friday in sunny Turin

Greetings people. So, it seems that I’m writing blogs for each day… at least for Turin. I hope I can compact it later, but Turin was such a pleasant city to be in, and I promise this is a shorter post. Alright anyway on with the show. Our second day in Turin was not heavily planned ahead. It was Easter Friday and we were not sure if places would be open in the very catholic Italy. Our goal was to head out into the sunshine and see where the road takes us. Anne is a big sushi lover and she had looked up a good place for us, so that was the only must for the day. 

We visited started at one of the major squares near the river Po. From there we followed one of the main roads to the centre of town where there was an old castle or Castillo. The city was surprisingly chill even with a great weather and Easter. There were people, but I expected parades or something more special. So, when we were chilling in the square by the Castillo I remembered that Turin is famous for the Shroud of Turin which is supposedly the sheets that Jeesus was wrapped in after dying on the cross. I understand that science has pretty much declared it a fake made in the middle ages, but still, I wanted to check it out since it was kept in the cathedral of Turin. Again, the cathedral was not too crowded with people, and only in the corner where the shroud is was a small group of people sitting in quiet. We checked it out, but at least I didn’t feel any divine presence - then again, I’m not a highly spiritual person in that manner. Again, I was rather surprised that there was no major fuss or crowd around such a well known holy relic for Easter. Maybe they just have their evening masses and watch the Pope babble on TV, I don’t know.

 

There was a smaller river or canal going by our airbnb apartment

River Po looking good for Easter in the sun

Smile matching the shirt

We had plenty of sushi which was delicious

Castillo thingy

Memorial for the Italian cavalry troops of the past

The cathedral of Turin was not as overly fancy as other big churches in Italy

People praying by the Shroud.

Some info on the object in question

From the church we noticed an old gate that turned out to be really old, from the Roman times. We chilled in the park next to the large red gate before snapping a few pics and heading for some ice cream. One tip for traveling in Italy is to eat a metric crap ton of ice cream. Especially the pistachio and hazelnut ice creams are really good and hard to find elsewhere, especially in Finland. In the evening we got some dinner and relaxed at the apartment. Next day had me real excited, but you’ll have to wait until the next post to hear about it. See you later. 

Hard to miss a big red gate like that

Was not far from the church

Final pose for the post