From Ancient Art to Modern Technology in Turin Very few Americans and probably few other non-Italians visit Torino. That's a shame. It's a beautiful city with a rich history, the cradle of Italian liberty, from which Camillo Cavour and the Savoy family launched the Risorgimento that reunited Italy in the 1860's. Seat of the Savoy dynasty since 1574, it became the first capital of the new Italy ...