Attractions
- Basilica & Royal Tombs
Basilica di Superga
Filippo Juvarra's domed Baroque basilica crowning a hilltop above Turin, built as a royal thanksgiving vow and reached by a cogwheel railway in service since 1884.
- Open-air Museum
Borgo Medievale
A meticulously reconstructed 15th-century Piedmontese and Aosta Valley village inside Parco del Valentino, built as a showpiece for the 1884 Italian General Exposition and freshly restored.
- Church
Chiesa della Gran Madre di Dio
A neoclassical church modelled on Rome's Pantheon, closing the vista down Via Po across the river, built to mark the Savoy king's return after the fall of Napoleon.
- Museum
Egyptian Museum (Museo Egizio)
The oldest museum dedicated entirely to Egyptian civilisation, and after Cairo the world's most important collection of Egyptian antiquities, with over 40,000 objects spanning 5,000 years.
- Art Gallery
GAM — Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
One of Italy's oldest public collections of modern art, founded in 1863 and now holding over 45,000 works from the 19th century to contemporary video and installation art.
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MAUTO — National Automobile Museum
One of the world's oldest car museums, tracing over 200 vehicles and a century and a half of automotive history in the city that gave rise to Fiat, Lancia and the Italian car industry.
- Landmark & Museum
Mole Antonelliana & National Cinema Museum
Turin's soaring 19th-century landmark, home to Italy's National Museum of Cinema and a glass panoramic lift climbing to a viewing deck above the city's rooftops.
- Viewpoint & Church
Monte dei Cappuccini
A wooded hill on the east bank of the Po crowned by a 17th-century Capuchin church, offering the classic postcard view of Turin's skyline against the Alps and home to the National Mountain Museum.
- Royal Hunting Lodge
Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi
Filippo Juvarra's star-shaped royal hunting lodge outside Turin, its central dome crowned by a bronze stag, ranked among the finest Baroque residences in Europe and a Savoy UNESCO site.
- Palace & Museum
Palazzo Carignano & Museum of the Risorgimento
Guarino Guarini's curved brick Baroque masterpiece, birthplace of Italy's first king and seat of its first parliament, now home to the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento.
- Museum & Castle
Palazzo Madama
A single building layering a Roman gate, a medieval castle and a Baroque palace facade, standing at the head of Piazza Castello and housing the Museum of Ancient Art.
- Park
Parco del Valentino
Turin's grandest park, unfolding along the Po river with a mock-medieval village, a neo-Gothic castle housing an engineering faculty, and the city's botanical garden.
- Historic Square
Piazza Castello
The ceremonial heart of Turin since the 16th century, ringed by the Royal Palace, Palazzo Madama, the Royal Theatre and porticoed avenues radiating out toward the rest of the city.
- Historic Square
Piazza San Carlo
Turin's elegant Baroque drawing room, a symmetrical square lined with porticoes and twin churches, long nicknamed the city's finest salon and home to its grandest historic cafés.
- Art Gallery & Rooftop Track
Pinacoteca Agnelli & the Lingotto rooftop track
A private art collection suspended in a glass box on the roof of the former Fiat Lingotto car factory, beside the banked test track that once sent finished cars circling above the city.
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Porta Palatina
The best-preserved Roman city gate in northern Italy, its twin sixteen-sided towers still standing where they were built two thousand years ago at the edge of Augusta Taurinorum.
- Historic District
Quadrilatero Romano
The grid of narrow streets tracing the exact street plan of Roman Augusta Taurinorum, now Turin's liveliest district for aperitivo, independent boutiques and late-night bars.
- Royal Palace
Royal Palace of Turin
The austere façade on Piazza Castello conceals the opulent official residence of the House of Savoy for over two centuries, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
- Sanctuary
Santuario della Consolata
Turin's most venerated shrine, an oval Baroque sanctuary by Guarino Guarini built around a much older Romanesque bell tower and devoted to the city's beloved patroness, Our Lady of Consolation.
- Opera House
Teatro Regio
Turin's opera house, where Puccini premiered La Bohème in 1896, rebuilt after a 1936 fire into a strikingly modern shell-shaped auditorium that remains one of Italy's leading stages.
- Cathedral
Turin Cathedral & the Holy Shroud
Turin's Renaissance cathedral, dedicated to St John the Baptist, joined to the Royal Palace by the Baroque Chapel of the Holy Shroud, keeper of the world's most famous relic.
- Historic Villa
Villa della Regina
A hillside Baroque villa modelled on Rome's Villa Medici, with terraced Italian gardens climbing the slope above the Po and a hard-won restoration that reversed decades of neglect.