Enigmatic Turin Preps, But Won't Preen, for Olympics

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LIANE HANSEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
01-22-2006
Enigmatic Turin Preps, But Won't Preen, for Olympics

Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM

LIANE HANSEN, host:

The Winter Olympic Games get under way next month in Turin, Italy, a city of contrasts and contradictions. Once the national capital, then an intellectual cradle, and later the country's industrial powerhouse, Turin has grand cuisine, majestic wines.

And as NPR's Sylvia Poggoili reports, it is also a city of secrets.

SYLVIA POGGOILI reporting:

Turin is not on the international tourists' radar screen. Tucked into the northwest ...

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