Let the Games begin!

February 10, 2006
Torino welcomed the world with a spectacular opening ceremony full of "Rhythm, Passion and Speed," as promised by the show's producers. An estimated 2 billion television viewers and another 35,000 people inside Stadio Olimpico watched the inauguration of the XX Olympic Winter Games.

A synthesis of urban identity and mountain culture, the expression of a territory rich in highly valuable environmental resources, Torino, the first capital city of Italy and since then always “Capital of the Alps”, aims to become for the next 17 days the world capital of sport, but also of peace, tolerance and dialogue among peoples.

Fireworks form the Olympic Rings during the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin Photo © Reuters

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The Olympic Flame Lit in Olympia

November 27, 2005
The start of the XX Olympic Winter Games – Torino 2006 drew a step closer today as the Olympic Flame was kindled in Olympia, Greece. Ignited in the traditional way by the High Priestess, actress Theodora Siarkou, the flame was then used to light the official torch of the Turin Games.

Actress Theodora Siarkou, who plays the role of high priestess, holds a replica of an ancient pot containing the flame during the Ceremony of the Lighting of the Olympic Flame for the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games at the site of Ancient Olympia on 27 November 2005 in Olympia, Greece. Credit : Getty Images/Milos Bicanski

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