Italy's National Automobile Museum could be nowhere else but Turin, first capital city of the unified country and headquarters of its major carmaker, FIAT. As writer and politician Augusto Monti (1881-1996) explained, the 20th century "started under the sign of a completely new prodigy: the spark-ignition engine, which meant people could basically drive a locomotive down any street, or even in the sky".
The Piedmontese capital provided the ideal setting for this four-wheeled apparition that would revolutionize world history: "Here is Turin, here is Piedmont – and France and Switzerland could never miss out on this epiphany.
Fonte: Italian Ways
