Travel to Turin?

[HabemusFrancis]

Since this is a Catholic forum, I am sure at least some of you have been to Italy!

Whether to see the Vatican and Rome, St. Francis’ homeland of Assisi, or Florence or Venice, there are plenty of Churches and historical things to see in those cities.

But has anyone ever been to Turin?

It is a city located in the northwest region of Italy, maybe 50 miles from the French border.

It seems very pretty and elegant, although more “Age of Reason” architecture than mideival or classical.

I have also heard it is kind of a hub for the occult. There are rumors of a large amount of satanists residing there, as well as people into other forms of “magic”.

Many of the cities statues or monuments have esoteric or masonic symbolism to them.

I would like to visit the city one day, but also fear the potential “negative influences” that may or may not be there.

Does anyone here know anything about Turin? Are my qualms valid? Or is it just silly superstition?

 

[JerryZ]

Hmmm, I guess that “hub for the occult” could also be applied to Rome. The very Holy places and people are a magnet for the evil side.

Most Saints have been tested and tried by the demonic.

As for Turin it is a modern city, it’s most salient feature was to have been the residence of the house of Savoia that were the rulers of the kingdom of Italy.
They unified Italy at the expense of also attacking the Vatican state to strip it, of all it’s land possesions, in the process confiscating all the wealth of the Vatican state (what else is new?).
Prior to this Italy was divided into many small kindoms, ducates, etc. But the most prominent of these “countries” was the “Stato Pontificio” which had lasted between AD 752 to AD 1870.

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[Kaninchen]

They unified Italy at the expense of also attacking the Vatican state to strip it, of all it’s land possesions, in the process confiscating all the wealth of the Vatican state (what else is new?).

Not exactly, the Italians left the Vatican alone.

Prior to this Italy was divided into many small kindoms, ducates, etc. But the most prominent of these “countries” was the “Stato Pontificio” which had lasted between AD 752 to AD 1870.–

Most prominent from whose point of view and in what ways? The population of the Papal States weren’t exactly kicking and screaming to avoid inclusion in the new Italy, by the way.

 

[HabemusFrancis]

It seems Turin is less Catholic than even industrial, snooty Milan.

But whatever… Id like to go anyway sometime…

 

[Kaninchen]

I wonder what you mean by ‘less Catholic’, I doubt that church attendance etc is lower than most other cities north of Rome.