Torino

Places in this region

Image of Medieval Village located in Torino, Italy
Torino, Italy

Medieval Village

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin

The Medieval Village in Turin, placed in Valentino Park, is a faithful replica of a 15th Century Piedmontese Village. It was builted in 1882-84 thanks to an idea of Alfredo D'Andrade, the... »

Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Annalisa

Image of Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology located in Torino, Italy
Torino, Italy

Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology

Once only open to academics, "Lombroso's Museum" has opened its doors to the public revealing the astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist

As the criminologist Cesare Lombroso examined the skull of the autopsied body of Giuseppe Villela, the notorious Italian criminal he had just dissected, he discovered a cranial anomaly known as a... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Strange Science, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Memento Mori, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by Dylan, amberjol and others