Italy-- Turino or Vertibo, Travel/study abroad to turino or vertibo? Italians, Study Abroad, Italy Trip....?

Question

This summer I am going to study abroad for about 7 weeks. I want to travel to Italy and the 2 places that are offered by my school are Turino, Italy and Vertibo, Italy. I really am not familiar with these places, so I was hoping I could get some suggestions, or hopefully some people's experiences from either or both. The only thing I do know about these two places are that the Olympics were once in Turino, and Vertibo, is right outside of Rome, about an hour away. My school does not offer Sicily, Rome, Florence, Naples, etc. I am still looking forward to going and living there for about 2 months! I hope that you all can help. If not, share an experience you had about your study abroad and give me some travelling tips! I will be taking accredited classes. The University in Turino is the 4th best university in Italy. But anyway, the bottom line is....Turino or Vertibo? It's a difficult decision, and I have to make my decision this week. Hope you can help! Thank you.

Answer 1

I agree with what Martox45 already answered to you.

Viterbo is a nice and friendly place and could allow you to travel easily to Rome and to the seaside. You are in the middle of Italy so you can also travel by train to Florence and Naples.

Torino is not a touristic place (mainly industry, fog and pollution) and is far away from some artistic cities and from the seaside.

From the point of view of which place, I can really reccomend you Viterbo!!!

If you have other questions, just ask.

P.S. I forgot, if you should go to Viterbo, don't miss the monster park in Bomarzo (close to Viterbo).

http://www.infoviterbo.it/bomarzo/parco_...

Answer 2

Why visit Turin? Because it is a city that is undergoing profound urban transformation. The city has taken on a new guise, thanks to the creation of ultramodern Olympic facilities and state of the art infrastructure. Turin with its new subway system has entered in the company of modern European cities. Turin’s has an innate industrial vocation that has enabled it to adapt to new technological needs, to the extent that today it has become one of the main centres of the ICT sector.

Turin has known how to speak of its own history through the testimony of its many artistic and architectural sights. We can learn of the Ancient Roman times through the Palatine Gates, the Savoy era through its Baroque palaces and churches, the nineteenth century that saw Turin as capital of the Kingdom of Italy, and the 1950s through its factories. Turin has been able to transform itself recently into an important international capital of taste. It is the “homeland” of vermouth, of grissini bread sticks, and of chocolate that is craved by refined palates the world over. Turin is a great commercial centre. Besides the stores in its city centre, there are about 50 open-air markets and 18 kilometres of arcades that frame the main squares and city streets. Turin, where Italian cinema was born, has dedicated one of its most interesting museums to this “seventh art” located right inside the Mole Antonelliana, the symbol of the city. Turin is tied in with cinema as a privileged set for important film and television productions.

As Le Corbusier said, “Turin is the city with the most beautiful natural location.” In fact, one of its assets is its extraordinary environmental heritage. It has 16,000,000 square metres of parks and gardens, 400 kilometres of tree-lined streets, more than 60,000 plants, 17 parks, and 70 kilometres of green areas along the four rivers in the city - the Po, Dora Riparia, Stura and Sangone. Turin is a city that is fascinating, aristocratic, literary, magic and very beautiful. As a young Sicilian writer wrote, we should visit Turin because “Turin is Turin and it is not a city like any other.” So, don't waste your time in Viterbo.

Answer 3

First of all correct spelling in Italian of the two towns is Torino and Viterbo.

Torino is a large town with all the good and bad things of a large place. Its University is rather renowned here in Italy but it's also depending on which course you want to attend.

I don't know about schools in Viterbo. The town is much smaller than Torino but in some way more friendly. Also locals in this region are warmer / more welcoming than in Torino. As you know Rome is not that distant. If I were you I would go with Viterbo but my suggestion is only based on the ambiance of the town and not to the quality of its school.