Turin is one of the main cities of Northern Italy, modern, vital and always interested in new technologies. With approximately 900,000 inhabitants and 130 km2 of land, it is today an important international centre of innovation and culture.The first capital of Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, Turin became, at the beginning of the 20th century, an industrial centre capable of guiding the entire country until the 1980s. Today it is a city of a thousand vocations.
Turin is a city of culture and tourism: the recovery and enhancement of the Royal Residences offer visitors a town of rare beauty. The important events organized in Turin, starting with the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, revealed those qualities and those merits that otherwise would have remained hidden in an almost exclusively industrial city. New vocations have grown, thanks to the strong will of citizens to work together with institutions, universities, research centres, leading companies with the common goal of finding new solutions and innovative answers.
Turin is an academic centre of primary importance: the two leading universities, the Polytechnic and the University of Studies, host around 100,000 students, 17% of whom come from abroad. It is a "student-friendly" city, always committed to improving its accommodation facilities, promoting a culture of excellence and recreational opportunities for all, a welcoming city for innovative companies.
Turin: a city that never ceases to amaze and never stops. A place that encourages innovation and development, a metropolis that is working to become more efficient and welcoming, inclusive and sustainable, where everyone can find favourable conditions for realizing their life and business project.