Google's doodle of the week
This is the doodle displayed on Google's main page. It's hotlinked to "Torino games" search string. The 20th Winter Olympics Games will begin on February 10, 2006, in Turin, Italy. The word turin comes from...
Related: Torino 2006 official website
Turin (Italian Torino) is a major industrial city in north-western Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the west bank of the Po River. The population of Turin city is 867,857 (2004 census), but its metropolitan area totals about 1.5 million inhabitants. The province is one of the largest in Italy, with 6,830 sq. km, and one of the most populated, with 2,191,960 inhabitants at the 2004 census. Turin is the host city of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Read more..
