The Italian Job

On our day trip to Turin we visited the coolest place - the old FIAT factory, complete with rooftop test track, which has now been turned into a giant art gallery (plus a shopping mall downstairs). The rooftop is now home to contemporary art exhibits and extensive gardens, intertwined with the old tarmac, while the Renzo Piano designed gallery, home to many millions of pounds worth of 'proper' paintings, sits on stilts above it all. Main takeaways - those old FIAT test drivers must have had balls of steel and, while Canaletto was the man, Henri Matisse paints like me...Les mer