The ASPA 2025 congress will be host by the University Campus of Grugliasco, located in largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco (Turin).
How to reach the venue
Metropolitan Trainline Service: a train every 30 minutes from Porta Nuova station to Grugliasco station (10 minutes) + a 5 minutes walk
Underground: from the city center to Fermi station + a 15 minutes walk or shuttle nr 76
Bike sharing service: two stations near the campus
The province of Torino is one of the largest provinces in Italy with the highest number of municipalities. It is made up of a mountainous part to the west and north along the border with France and the the Aosta Valley, and a flat or hilly part in the southern and eastern areas, and it is crossed mainly by the Po River.
THE CITY OF TURIN (TORINO)
The Museum System: from Pyramids to Pop Art
The city boasts 46 museums, spanning from the Egyptian Museum – second only to the one in Cairo – to the Museum of Cinema with its collection of over 300,000 relics of the film industry. Contemporary art is also very important and found its first patrons here, in the royal family of Savoy, who in 1863 brought together the most modern works of the time, creating the first contemporary Civic Museum.
Today, those works are the nucleus of the collection of 20,000 items, housed at the GAM, the Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Torino. The GAM now shares its role in contemporary art with the Castle of Rivoli, a Savoy residence designed by Filippo Juvarra and now a Museum of Contemporary Art.
A more modern form of art is showcased at the National Museum of Cinema, which is located inside the Mole Antonelliana, the symbol monument of the City. The setting was created by the Swiss architect François Confino, who designed an interactive trip through the world of cinema.
In the middle of the Mole (tower) there is a panoramic glass lift that rises to the top of the building and from where the whole Torino can be seen.
Eating well in Torino is an art, a tradition of excellence that spans from wine to cheese, and from coffee to apéritifs. Alpine cheese accompanied by red wines, world-famous apéritifs, “agnolotti” and superb boiled meats are just a few of the city’s typical dishes.
Gastronomic traditions in Torino have always kept abreast of the times. In 1786 Benedetto Carpano invented Vermouth, Torino’s apéritif par excellence. The recipe calls for steeping the wine with thirteen different ingredients and aromatic herbs; a procedure that confers upon it an unmistakable flavour and perfume, enjoyed the world over
They gather amid the heady smells of salami, truffles and wine. Both events had their start in the 90s and prove the vitality of a tradition that shapes the city’s culture. These appointments with the gastronomic arts have placed Torino among the world’s undisputed leaders in the sector.
Parks, avenues, large rivers: nature is an integral part of the historic centre.
A little beyond are the hills, an area of lush greenery, fresh air and delightful woodland paths. But nature is not only an external feature, a breathtakingly beautiful but separate entity. It lives within the city too, replenished with the seasons.
Torino has 16 million square metres of green areas within its city confines, a true environmental record to which one must add 400 kilometres of tree-lined avenues. Not to mention its numerous parks and gardens. Starting with the very central Royal Gardens, a place where the heirs to the House of Savoy used to play, a historic “green door” of the city, where it is still possible to admire Torino’s 16th century walls.
In Torino green spaces and parks go hand in hand with the flowing waters of its four rivers. First and foremost, the River Po. Italy’s longest river, the Po runs through the entire municipal territory, joining forces here with the Dora Riparia, one of its larger tributaries.
