North Italy route from Turin

About the destination: The Metropolitan City of Turin (Italian: Città metropolitana di Torino) is a metropolitan city in the Piedmont region, Italy. Its capital is the city of Turin. It replaced the Province of Turin and includes the city of Turin and 315 other local authorities (comuni). It was first established by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then set up by the Law 56/2014. It has been officially in operation since 1 January 2015. The Metropolitan City of Turin is led by the metropolitan mayor (sindaco metropolitano) and by the metropolitan council (consiglio metropolitano). Since 5 June 2016, Chiara Appendino has been the mayor of the capital city, taking over from Piero Fassino. It is the largest Metropolitan City of Italy and the only one to border a foreign country. It covers an area of 6,830 km2 (2,640 sq mi), and has a total population of 2,306,676. There are 316 comuni in the metropolitan area – the most of any province or metropolitan city in Italy. The province with the second highest number of comuni is Cuneo with 250.

About the destination: Piedmont is a region in northwest Italy, one of the 20 regions of the country. It borders the Liguria region to the south, the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions to the east and the Aosta Valley region to the northwest; it also borders Switzerland to the northeast and France to the west. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres (9,808 sq mi) and a population of 4,377,941 as of 30 November 2017. The capital of Piedmont is Turin.

About the destination: Moncalieri is a town and comune about 8 kilometres directly south of downtown Turin, in Piedmont, Italy. It is notable for its castle, built in the 12th century and enlarged in the 15th century, which later became the favourite residence of Maria Clotilde and Victor Emmanuel II of Italy. It is part of the World Heritage Site Residences of the Royal House of Savoy. Close to the castle, the descending square of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II was in the past the major centre for the Moncalieri activities.

About the destination: Rivoli is an Italian municipality with 50,115 inhabitants, making it the third most populous in the province of Turin. It also happens to be the seventh most populous municipality in all of Piedmont. It's located about 14 km west of Turin. It's bordered by the following municipalities: Turin, Pianezza, Caselette, Alpignano, Collegno, Rosta, Grugliasco, Villarbasse, Rivalta di Torino and Orbassano. Rivoli is renowned for its castle, an unfinished residence of those belonging to the house of Savoy, which is now a museum of contemporary art and a World Heritage Site.