Basilica di Superga

It was on May 12, 2007 that I have a chance to visit, probably, the most interesting church in Torino: Basilica di Superga.
Basilica di Superga is a unique place. It is located on the top of the hill, so you can look at it easily from the city of Torino. Basilica di Superga or just say Superga is a rather mistical chuch and becoming more famous because of 1949 accident. The airplane which carried the best ever soccer team of FC Torino (known as Grande Torino = the Great Torino) was crashed the church and killed all of the players including official team and reporters. At that moment, it was the best soccer team in Italian with 5 straight winning of serie A (Italian soccer competition). You can still see some parts of the broken building which was not repaired (I think) due to memorize this tragedy.

It was believed that Superga was built as a promise of king Vittoro if he able to beat France in a war near Torino and get back Torino from France. At the end, king Vittoro was truly able to do it and he kept his promise to built a church on the top of the mountain (near Sassi). Unfortunately, it was not enough space there, then he asked people to throw away all of that stone and make it a wide flat-area until it was enough to built a church. The place where people thrown the stones called as Sassi (means stone).
There is a stair that you can go up till half of duomo. I paid 3 euro for it. From this point, you can see all parts of Torino and if you are lucky, you can get the whole picture of alpen mountain line. To go here, you can use bus which regularly come ever hour. So, you can use your travel ticket or bus ticket. Otherwise, you can use special train called Superga Rack Railway. The ticket around 6 euro for 2 ways and 3 euro for one way. The price ticket will be different during saturday, sunday and holiday.