On Thursday morning, our first full day in Turin, we started off with the Egyptian Museum. Turin has the oldest Egyptian Museum in the world (yes, older than even in Egypt), and has an incredible collection. We spent hours wandering through the galleries.
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It suggested that it takes the average visitor 2 1/2 hours to view the museum. Since I am not your average museum visitor, it took us much longer, close to 4 hours. I really could have spent more time, but my leg was really bothering me, and I was hungry, so I wrapped it up. I took very few pictures in the museum because I was just too busy reading and absorbing everything, but Nathaniel bought me a book in the bookshop that has pictures of many things we saw. It also had a quote which history buffs will appreciate, from Jean-Francois Champollion, the man who cracked the code to translate hieroglyphs, "The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin."
We later visited this gorgeous church. I loved all the churches! This one was not on the "must-see" list, but was just breathtaking. I was so glad we stopped to look and pray here! It's St. Philip Neri Church.
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