Seightseeing Tours can be booked on the Registration Form.
Reservations must be received by June 30, 2005.
Full pre-payment is necessary for these tours and to participate, please tick the corresponding item(s) on the Registration Form (Sightseeing Tours).
All tours are accompanied by an English-speaking guide.
All tours are subject to a minimum of 25 participants. Should the minimum number of 25 participants not be reached, an alternative tour program may be arranged or the tour cancelled and your fee refunded.
If you want to cancel your participation in a tour, you must send your cancellation in writing to ACTA by June 30, 2005. After June 30 no refund can be made. A voucher should be presented upon arrival at the beginning of each tour.
Tour vouchers must be collected from the Tour Desk on the first day of the conference.
All tours depart from the Torino Incontra Conference Center. Participants are kindly invited to be there at least 10 minutes before departure time.

TOUR n°1

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
14.30 - 17.00
TURIN ORIENTATION TOUR
Euro: 23,00/person (includes bus ride, guide, and aperitif)

Half-day guided tour of Torino by bus. The tour will give you a general impression of the city of Turin, its historical and modern quarters, and its cultural and social aspects. You will discover the history of the first Italian Capital City, a noble and elegant city. You will visit the large, beautiful and harmonious squares like San Carlo Square, the famous avenues lined with trees, the

large and elegant streets, the magnificent Baroque Palaces and Churches like Palazzo

Carignano and the Church of San Lorenzo, the Valentino Park, the Medieval Village on the Po river. The tour will continue with aperitif in a historical café bar in the centre of town.

TOUR n°2

Wednesday, September 28, 2005
10.00 - 17.00
THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM AND THE MUSEUM OF CINEMA
Euro: 62,00/person (includes bus ride, guide, admission tickets and light lunch)

Located inside the Accademia delle Scienze, one of Italy's most elegant baroque buildings, the Egyptian Museum is second only to the Cairo museum for its variety and completeness (30,000 items in exhibits), thanks to the dig made by Ernesto Schiapparelli in the early 1900s. 5,000 years of history, everyday life and art in ancient Egypt, including the black statue of Ramesses II, the rock-hewn temple of Ellesya and the furnishing of the tomb of Kha and Merit. The only one in Italy and among the most important ones in the world, the National Museum of Cinema is located inside the Mole Antonelliana, the symbol of the

city of Torino, conceived in 1862 by the Architect Antonelli as a synagogue.

The Museum is the tallest museum in the world (167 mt. high) and one of the most exciting exhibitions of cinema, ranging from pre to post cinema, that is from the magic lantern and the Lumiere inventions to the electronic age - all scrupulously documented and with many curious items. The tour will lead you into an interactive journey into the wonders of cinema with shows taking place inside the Temple Hall.

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TOUR n°3

Friday, September 30, 2005
9.00 - 18.30
LAKE MAGGIORE
Euro: 70,00/person (includes bus ride, guide, boat rides, admission tickets and lunch)

Lake Maggiore (or Verbano) is a lake basin of North-Eastern Piedmont which borders with Lombardy and Switzerland, it is the second largest among the Italian lakes after Lake Garda. Sheltered by the Alpine ring, it occupies a valley gully probably of tectonic origin. The Borromeo islands are famous all over the world for their amazing beauty:

"Isola Pescatori" (the fishermen's island) is the smallest one. The island welcomes the tourists with its small and ancient alleys and its typical restaurants: the sudden glimpse of landscape that opens up suddenly in front of their eyes and in the same sudden way changes or disappears, baffling and delighting the visitor who is covering the narrow lanes or the steep flight of stone steps.

"Isola Madre" (Mother island), from the smallest island to the biggest one of Lake Maggiore. A huge floating botanical garden where thousands of plants are able to recreate their habitat in order to grow in full bloom by creating strange colour matching which will amaze the most daring painter. "Isola Bella" (Beauty island), undoubtedly the most famous masterpiece of human talent mounted as if it were a

precious stone on the mirror of the lake. It is difficult to say what excites the tourist more: most probably both works joined together marvellously in a Baroque triumph offer splendours also to the most self-absorbed visitor.

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TOUR n°4

Saturday, October 1, 2005
9.00 - 18.30
THE WINES OF PIEDMONT AN UNFORGETTABLE ENOGASTRONOMICAL TOUR IN THE LANGHE REGION: WINEYARDS, HILLS AND MEDIEVAL CASTLES
Euro: 62,00/person (includes bus ride, guide, admission tickets and lunch)

Welcome to the hills of Taste: Langhe, the land of Truffles and of the famous Barbera, Barolo, Barbaresco, and Nebbiolo wines.
These winding hills rappresent the most famous enogastronomical area in the Piemonte Region and one of the most appealing in Italy.
Genuine and fancy dishes mixed with the magics of the wine world, the beauty of a unique scenery, the scent of history to be discovered through a visit to the town of Alba and its charming surroundings with medieval castles and wine cellars.

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