Last night after dinner we took a drive up to Superga, a basilica (that means big mother church) that sits on top of the highest hill surrounding Torino.  The "hill" is about 2,000 feet.  The view from up there is, as you can imagine, amazing.  Last night was a beautiful clear night and we could see the lights from the city, all the burbs and over to the towns on the lower mountains, the "pre-alps", on the other side of Torino.  Superga is famous for being the sight of one of Torino's worst tragedies.  In 1949 a plane carrying the city's newly crowned world cup winning soccer team crashed into the church.  Now it's like a monument to dead soccer players.  They even preserved the wing of the plane embedded into a side of the hill.  A little creepy.  Anywho, no one ever said Italians have their priorities straight.  More later.  Off to school.  xxoo me