Turin or Torino?

[doubleaxelcm]

I've heard the Olympics as being in Torino and Turin. Which is it? Or are they two names for the same place?

 

[Piel]

IIRC Turin is calledTorino just as Italy is called Italia usually by the locals.

 

[ceg15]

I was wondering the same thing!

 

[R.D.]

Yes, they are the same place. I believe Torino is what Italians call the city, and therefore the official name of the Olympic Games (Torino 2006). But the English way of pronouncing the name is "Turin".

 

[ceg15]

Thanks red dog-it was beginning to confuse me and I didn't know what to call it

 

[Arsenette]

Well the Spanish speaking community have always called it Torino

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

It's an Italian town and the name is theirs. Torino! (Turin is the English translation.)

Similarly it's Fiorenze which was turned into Florence by translation.

There are so many European towns which in their native tongues are not the same as they appear in English. Muenchen and Munich, for example.

Joe