Torino

This stag-capped hunting lodge in the city Americans know as Turin was built by a Duke of Savoy. It is all lit up for a ball celebrating the centenary of the birth of modern Italy. As these pages show, Torino—until this year almost unknown to tourists—is one of Europe's most varied sports centers

After a morning of boating on the Po, two girls pause for coffee in the sun beneath the statue of King Emanuele Filiberto, which has come to be the symbol of Torino

At new race track, Count Urbano Ratazzi, in riding clothes, greets Truck President Emanuele Nasi and wife

Parties in Torino are among the most elegant in all of Italy. Here Elisabetta Galanti sips trine at a ball

An industrialist discusses the building of the new opera house with Mayor Peyron in Ristorante del Cambio

FIVE PHOTOS

JERRY COOKE