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Prince Eugene of Savoy in front of the Hofburg Vienna

is strongly linked to the Habsburgs, the Savoia Torino (in reality there is also a very very Savoia appreciated by the Viennese, Prince Eugene).

Turin has just under one million inhabitants, Vienna and a half million.

Both insist on an almost flat terrain and develop along an ordered structure (square in Turin, circular in Vienna).

Either one or the other alternate roads very large to smaller streets, but never particularly tortuous.

Mozart Monument Park Hofburg

Among many similarities here is a difference: the miles of bike paths in Turin are 120 - including 40 in the parks - while in Vienna are over 1,000 .


The different attitudes to cyclists by automibilisti never mind, we should rely too much on subjective experience.

Data verifiable are already more than enough to say that Vienna can be turned into a bike length and breadth of Turin a little 'less.

What explains this difference? The cities are similar, to encourage the move by bike is not expensive, the impact on the city is only positive.

The Hofpavillon Otto Wagner

The explanation may be this: those who administer Vienna believes that the bicycle is a tool for intelligent transportation and is useful for improving the quality of life in the city. Who administers

Torino, no.

would be wonderful be denied in the very short period (with the facts, however, that is to say a few kilometers of cycle more).