Details of Chocolates Seen at "Dolci Portici" Chocolate and Sweets Exhibition, Turin, Italy
Details of Chocolates Seen at "Dolci Portici" Chocolate and Sweets Exhibition, Turin, Italy
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1907 Itala 45 HP Classic Car. Winner of the Beijing - Paris Rally of 1907. Seen at Museo dell' Automobile, Turin, Italy
This is the car that travelled from Beijing, China, to Paris, in 60 days in 1907. It is not at Museo dell' Automobile in Turin, Italy. The Peking to Paris motor race was an automobile race, originally held in 1907, between Peking (now Beijing), then Qing China and Paris, France, a distance of 9,317 miles or 14,994 km. The idea for the race came from a challenge published in the Paris newspaper Le Matin on 31 January 1907, reading: "What needs to be proved today is that as long as a man has a car, he can do anything and go anywhere. Is there anyone who will undertake to travel this summer from Peking to Paris by automobile?" The race started from the French embassy in Peking on 10 June 1907. The winner Prince Scipione Borghese arrived in Paris on 10 August 1907 Please see also my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588 There were no rules in the race, except that the first car to Paris would win the prize of a magnum of Mumm cha...
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