We start from the ‘centre’ of Turin

In order to populate AtlasFor throughout Italy, we started from the centre of Turin: the perfect place to show the virtuality of our atlas in an urban context full of history and activity.

Today, Turin is certainly one of the most intriguing European cities for those who know how to let themselves be taken by curiosity, who manage to get out of the bounds of pre-established interests and let themselves go to follow unexpected traces that AtlasFor brings to light along the way, a stone’s throw from the official destinations.

The aim is to recount the complexity of the city that constitutes the context of the UNESCO-listed ‘Residenze Sabaude’, to facilitate the exploration of the intriguing little-known world that is available within a kilometre radius of the Egyptian Museum, the Cinema Museum and the Automobile Museum.

The map shows with images that every square is overlooked by palaces and signed churches, that every historic place is within an urban space with its own history, that every street is full of events that make it come alive and intriguing characters who have lived it.

With APPA (l’Atlante del Patrimonio e del Paesaggio Attivo) we not only try to tell the story of yesterday, but we would like to interest inhabitants and visitors in the opportunities for the future that the different neighbourhoods of the centre offer, on the most diverse topics: there are dozens of museums, galleries, and venues that host cultural performances, there are many laboratories that develop smart city ideas, we are rich in subjects that continue and innovate the tradition of social saints in the art of welcoming and assisting the last, and so on.

In just a few hundred metres, between the Dora and Corso Dante, between the Po and Porta Susa, AtlasFor brings to life the stories and charms of 100 places that are part of our cultural heritage and, at the same time, showcases the initiatives of 100 operators committed to the Active Landscape: associations, foundations, venue and performing art managers, researchers of urban quality, innovators in hospitality services.
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We are engaging these operators to take the lead in telling their stories and their projects: at the presentation on 9 April 2019, an architect, a historic café manager, an art gallery owner tell their way of participating in AtlasFor, leading the way for others.

With trade associations (of hoteliers or architects for example), tourism promotion bodies (ATL Turin and Province for example), and agencies monitoring cultural activities (the Cultural Observatory of Piedmont for example) we are agreeing on ways to participate and disseminate the initiative: in the coming months we will complete Turin, but by the end of the year we plan to develop APPA with 100 other places and 100 subjects of the active landscape in the Langhe and Monferrato, Canavese, and Val di Susa.