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A double-edged tribute to French soldiers blasted to death by Turinese folk-hero Pietro Micca, who...

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The tunnels stretch on for long, arrow-straight distances, rather like the streets of Turin, with prongs off both sides.

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This bizarre cistern was the pride of the Citadel -- entire troops of horses could walk down this...

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A typical French mortar of 1706, lobbing cannon-balls onto the civilian population cooped within the city by the seige.

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A Turinese-made swivel-rifle, mounted on the battlements.

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The sharp and thorny city of Turin, defended in depth with armored farmhouses, breastworks out in...

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The now-extinct "Tower of Saint Gregory" was once a looming Turinese landmark, and little...

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A remaining fragment of the moat-wall of the Turin Citadel, which is deeply buried below...

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The elaborate brickworks that connected the bridge above the moat to the counter-mine galleries radiating from the Citadel.

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The killing-ground of the moat also featured breathing-chimneys for the countermine galleries below it.

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They dug the tunnels out by hand, boarded them and then bricked them. Mind you, that was some...

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Windlasses and carts haul the debris from some of the deeper galleries, which were 30 meters down.

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The tunnels were equipped with fuses and black-powder bombs in case the invaders broke in. ...

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Savoyard military engineers bringing their full baroque ingenuity to the task of killing invaders. ...

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It's very Edgar Allen Poe "Cask of Amontillado" down here, complete with nitre, cold drafts and dripping.

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I had no idea that Turin still has a kilometer and a half of surviving military tunnels from the...

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The world is not ready to this kind of junk

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The first girlfriend, the former girlfriend who's the mother of the children, the various apparatchiks

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