Other cultural events
- a congress on the 1600 since the Council of Turin;
- a congress on the 500 years of Turin Cathedral;
- the Third International Congress of Sindonology.
We will be delighted to help the mass media and publishers who wish to
consult us.
Voluntary organisations
The various ecclesiastical organisations of the Diocese have been contacted and they are
letting us know what they can do to help in the various reception services: surveillance
service, guides for the handicapped and the sick, translators and interpreters, various
secretarial services.
Administrative and financial aspects
The group in charge of the administrative and financial aspects is
co-ordinated by the diocese Bursar. It is linked up with all the operative fields of the
programme to prepare reliable guidance about expenditure estimates.
Turin Church for the Shroud: where and how to contact us
Information of a general nature about the Exposition is available on
various "channels": telecom network, telephone, fax, secretarial staff. In the
months to come the visitors' booking centre will become operative, and we will soon let
you know how to get in touch with it.
Where to write: Please address your letters to:
Segreteria Commissione Ostensione Sindone, via Arcivescovado 12, 10121 Turin, Italy.
Telephone and fax The Secretary’s office for the Exposition is open at present from
Monday to Friday, from 9 to 12 in the morning and from 3 to 5 in the afternoon.
Telephone 011/561-30-94
Fax: 011/5156-319
Cultural events
Exhibitions, appointments and events for pilgrims
The Torino Cittą Capitale Europa Association wishes to welcome all visitors to the 1998
Exposition of the Holy Shroud and invite them to take part in the other initiatives and
cultural events which have been laid on for the occasion.
Religious settlements and places of worship in the Savoy Dukedom and in
its capital city, Turin.
This initiative presents the history of religious feeling and worship between the 15th and
the 17th centuries in relation to the Shroud. Special attention will be devoted to the
influence of religious institutions on the history of the Savoy Dukedom and its capital
city, Turin.
The pilgrim is offered the opportunity to visit religious buildings in the historic centre
which will be open for the first time since the completion of a complex restoration
programme.
The city itinerary takes the visitor through about thirty important historical buildings,
from the Cathedral of S. Giovanni and the Chapel of the Shroud through to the Church of
the SS. Sudario and the adjoining Museum of Sindonology which has recently been renovated.
Guided tours and special information signs will explain the historical and artistic
importance of the royal churches, the churches of the religious orders, the churches of
the Brotherhoods and places where the saints of the nineteenth century lived and worked.
Exhibitions of art and religious objects and other cultural events will be held in these
historic buildings during the period of the Exposition.
Visitors can choose between fifteen different tours lasting one or two days each so they
can get to know the region. These tours follow the travels of the Shroud in Piedmont in
the religious and cultural climate of the 15th to 18th centuries. The focal points of
these itineraries are the places where the Shroud was publicly displayed. These are places
of historical and artistic interest and of religious significance such as the holy mounts
and the great dynastic sanctuaries.
Videos, guide books, maps and teaching aids will be also available for these visits into
the province of Piedmont.
Two important exhibitions have also been set up in Turin to reinforce the expressive power
of the Shroud’s mysterious image, which today more than ever before is the subject of
heated debate between religious, scientific and religious thought, and to spread knowledge
about it around the world.
The image of the Shroud through the centuries
A historical and artistic exhibition devoted to the iconography of the Shroud from the
14th century through to the 18th century will be laid on. There will be various different
art works, paintings, miniatures, engravings and objects featuring iconographical
variations around the central representation of the Holy Shroud. Particular attention will
be dedicated to the historic role of the Shroud in the vicissitudes of the Savoy dynasty
and to the history of the devotion dedicated to it.
Secondo Pia, photographer of the Shroud
Secondo Pia, the first person to photograph the Shroud in 1898, will be remembered during
the Exposition. His photographic plates and original prints of his many religious and
artistic photographs will be on display. Photography introduced a new way of seeing and
studying the Shroud, and debates on the subject since that date have always been
illustrated with photographs. More recently striking three dimensional electronically
processed images have also been used.
Turin Capital City in Europe
The Associazione Torino Cittą Capitale Europa (Turin Capital City in Europe Association)
was founded in 1995 to promote appreciation of the Piedmontese capital. Its founder
members are the Turin Council, the Turin Province, the Piedmont Region, Turin University,
Turin Polytechnic, the Cassa di Risparmio Fondazione bank , the Compagnia di San Paolo
bank and the Turin Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts. It also enjoys the
institutional support of the Piedmont Superintendencies of the Ministry for the Cultural
Heritage.
Its statutory purpose is to promote and co-ordinate the cultural events, meetings and
exhibitions in the spirit of Turin and Piedmont’s increasing role in Europe, and
especially the engagements of great cultural and tourist importance between now and the
year 2000. Another fundamental purpose of the Association is to recover the entire
historical area between the Porte Palatine and the Mole Antonelliana and in particular the
area of the Cavallerizza Reale (the Royal Riding School). The Association has promoted an
in-depth study by Turin Polytechnic to analyse and recover this important site.
The ad hoc work Committees, with the help of outside experts, have so far worked on the
programme of events concerning the Exposition of the Holy Shroud and exhibitions on the
150th anniversary of the Risorgimento.
The Torino Cittą Capitale Europa Association co ordinates the various institutional and
private bodies that have always worked in the cultural field in the organisation of the
cultural engagements that will bring Turin and Piedmont to the attention of Europe.
Exposition of the Holy Shroud, Turin 1998
Information about the cultural events and all the other initiatives promoted by the Public
Organisations is available at:
Turin I. A.T.
011/535181 - 535901
Green line 167-32932
 
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