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Torino
Piedmont's capital and Italy's first, a city of arcaded avenues and baroque squares with the Alps closing the view down every street.
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Highlights
Castello del Valentino
A French-style ducal residence on the Po in Turin's Valentino park, now the architecture faculty and a World Heritage site.
La Grotta di Sale Galos
A room in Turin lined with Himalayan salt blocks, used for halotherapy sessions.
Il Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino
Turin's cinema museum, spiralling up the inside of the Mole Antonelliana with a glass lift to the dome.
MAO Museo di Arte Orientale
Turin's museum of Asian art, from Gandharan sculpture to Japanese screens, in Palazzo Mazzonis.
Museo Egizio
The oldest museum of Egyptian antiquities in the world and the largest outside Cairo, founded in Turin in 1824.
Museo Lavazza
A museum in Turin on a century of the coffee trade, in the company's own headquarters block.
Museo Lavazza. La storia di una grande impresa.
The Lavazza collection in Turin, tracing the firm from a grocer's shop to a global roaster.
Museo Nazionale Storico d'Artiglieria
Artillery from the fifteenth century onwards, held in the Mastio della Cittadella in Turin.
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Film history inside the Mole Antonelliana, Turin's landmark tower, with a panoramic lift to the top.
Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile di Torino
Some two hundred cars tracing the motor age, in a purpose-built hall on Turin's Po embankment.
Museo della Radio e della Televisione RAI
Broadcasting equipment from Marconi's day onwards, in the RAI production centre in Turin.
San Rocco: visita alla mostra e al museo diocesano
The diocesan museum in Turin, in the church of San Rocco beside the cathedral.
Visti da Fuori: Museo Ettore Fico e il suo contesto urbanistico
A contemporary art museum in a former factory in Turin's Barriera di Milano district.
Visti da Fuori: Museo del Risorgimento e Museo Egizio
Palazzo Carignano in Turin, birthplace of the first Italian parliament and now the Risorgimento museum.
Visti da Fuori: Pinacoteca Agnelli e complesso ex Fiat
A picture gallery on the roof of the Lingotto, the former Fiat works with its test track still in place.
Piazza Castello
Turin's central square, closed on one side by Palazzo Madama and ringed by the arcades the Savoy laid out.
Historic site
Nothing of this kind in Torino.
Routes
5 from neighbouring places
Cammino di Don Bosco: Tappa 6 Chiesa della Gran Madre di Dio
The last stage of the Don Bosco way, climbing from the Gran Madre church in Turin towards Superga.
- 8.6 km
- Distance
- 670 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 21 min
- Duration
- 8
- Check-ins
Cammino di Don Bosco: Tappa 2 Basilica di Superga
A long stage of the Don Bosco way over the hills east of Turin to the basilica of Superga on its ridge above the city.
- 26.0 km
- Distance
- 670 m
- Ascent
- 7 h 45 min
- Duration
- 9
- Check-ins
Cammino di Don Bosco: Tappa 1 Santuario Maria Ausiliatrice, Valdocco
The first stage of the Don Bosco way, starting at the Maria Ausiliatrice sanctuary in Valdocco and leaving Turin for the hills.
- 14.5 km
- Distance
- 670 m
- Ascent
- 5 h 3 min
- Duration
- 7
- Check-ins
Ciclovia Francigena della Valle di Susa
12.9 km away, in Alpignano
A near-level route through the Valle di Susa tracing the old Via di Francia, between farmland and small villages past Lago Bonadies.
- 13.0 km
- Distance
- 10 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 10 min
- Duration
- 1
- Check-ins
Lago Bonadies 317 m
SVC Tappa 2: Superga
6.8 km away, in Baldissero Torinese
A long stage along the crest of the Turin hills, over the Bric del Duca and the Bric della Croce Bianca, with viewpoints at Motta and Cinzano.
- 25.3 km
- Distance
- 657 m
- Ascent
- 7 h 32 min
- Duration
- 9
- Check-ins
Cammino di Don Bosco: Tappa 7 Eremo dei Camaldolesi
5.5 km away, in Pecetto Torinese
A hill stage of the pilgrim route above Pecetto Torinese, over the Bric dlà Serra to the Camaldolese hermitage.
- 13.7 km
- Distance
- 670 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 56 min
- Duration
- 1
- Check-ins
Cammino di Don Bosco: Tappa 4 Bric Croce
9.7 km away, in Baldissero Torinese
A short hill stage of the Don Bosco pilgrim route, crossing the Turin hills above Baldissero Torinese.
- 16.1 km
- Distance
- 670 m
- Ascent
- 5 h 26 min
- Duration
Cammino di Don Bosco: Tappa 8 Centro Visite Don Bosco
13 km away, in Chieri
A short closing stage of the Don Bosco pilgrim route over the low hills and farm lanes around Chieri.
- 18.1 km
- Distance
- 670 m
- Ascent
- 5 h 54 min
- Duration
No routes of this kind in Torino yet.
The region's own picks
Featured route
Cammino di Don Bosco: Tappa 6 Chiesa della Gran Madre di Dio
The last stage of the Don Bosco way, climbing from the Gran Madre church in Turin towards Superga.
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Data sources
- Official website: turismotorino.org ↗
- Routes and highlights: Italia.it, Piemonte Outdoor, Bookingpiemonte, Turismotorino, Valdisusaturismo
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