A reception for the Industry Day and WFCS attendants will be held at Palazzo Cisterna in the evening of the Industry Day.

Palazzo Cisterna hosts the Headquartes of the Provincia di Torino. The original nucleus of the building - Count Flaminio Antonio Ripa di Giaglione's property - dates back to 1675. The palace still conserves one of the most remarkable testimony of the decorations of the XVIIth century. It is a vault, at the ground floor, east wing, used today as reading room of Province Historical Library. Always situated at the ground floor, on the west wing, there are four great rooms in which Gonin's frescos of XIXth century can be admired.

The remaining aulic part of the complex at the first floor is announced by a prestigious staircase showing and presenting the restructuring of XIXth century in Tuscany style. Some furnishings are still the original ducal ones, and there are series of paintings exposed of the XIXth and XXth centuries.

(More Information about Palazzo Cisterna can be found here)

This event starts at 19:00 and is supported by the Provincia di Torino. Palazzo Cisterna is on walking distance from the conference site.

The Borgo and Castello Medioevale, a medieval village and castle, are located on the banks of the river Po.

This unusual structure is situated in the Valentino Park, not far from the Valentino Palace, the famous buiding of the Savoy dynasty deriving from various projectural phases which began in the mid-1500s. The Borgo and Castello Medioevale were created for the 1884 exhibition as a realistic reconstruction of some 15th century Piedmontese villages. For instance details as the craftsmen's workshops, the pomegranate fountain and the Landlord's castle are inspired by the Fenis castle. Most buildings in the Borgo are copies of the medieval buildings still in existence throughout Piedmont.

Its constructive details were chosen with great care and expertise and all devices possible were applied to welcome the visitors and immerse them into a world totally different from the surrounding environment. Within its walls one feels a friendly village atmosphere. Everything is designed to appear absolutely "real".

(More Information about the Borgo Medioevale can be found here )

This event starts at 19.15. The Borgo and Castello Medioevale can be reached by bus or on foot (30 min. walk from the conference site).

As Turinese as the Mole Antonelliana, as the porticoes of the city centre, as the curvilinear façade of Palazzo Carignano which stands opposite, the Ristorante del Cambio is a pure synthesis of the city’s spirit. Elegance and enterprise meet at table, between prominent personalities and Turinese gourmets who adore the restaurant’s menu, its wine cellar, its velvets, its silver, its decorations, the style of the service that adds a breath of magic to every course, to every conversation that springs up at table.

Inaugurated in 1757, the Ristorante del Cambio offers the rich but delicate flavours of old Piedmont, a skilful blend of traditional and creative. One of the city’s historic jewels, it welcomes its guests with crimson velvets, baroque mirrors topped by the paintings of Roberto Bonelli and a triumph of gilded woods.

The largest room, where the workshop dinner will be held, still has the table where Count Camillo Benso di Cavour used to sit, the Cambio’s most faithful and illustrious patron. This historic restaurant was in fact the meeting place of the leading politicians, aristocrats and cultural figures of Piedmont and of the Kingdom of Italy.

(More Information about the Ristorante del Cambio can be found here here )

This is event starts at 19:45. The Restaurant is on walking distance from the conference site.