Tuesday, February 21, 2006

A view of the Monte dei Cappuccini, a hill-top convent and church overlooking the city of Torino, can be seen behind a bell tower on Tuesday.

The Gran Madre church lights up the view of Torino's hills from the banks of the Po river.

Groups file in and out of the Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista on Tuesday to see the Chapel of the Holy Shroud.

Takeshi Nishikawa (right), of Japan, was happily surprised when Bai Jie, of China, pulled out a sparkling ice skate pin from her pocket in search of a trade outside the Oval Lingotto in Torino on Tuesday. Nishikawa was set up outside the speed skating venue to trade pins from his collection of over 2,000. The pins on his jacket, however, he said were his favorites, his personal collection. Shortly after completing the trade with Jie, Nishikawa had already given the ice skate pin away to someone who had purchased 100 euros in pins from him.

Here, Nishikawa examines Jie's pins before she showed him what she was hiding in her pocket.

Mostly Americans crowd around the set of the Today show to wave home from Piazza San Carlo, in Torino, Italy.