I Monumenti a Turin
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Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti
Centro - Via Accademia Albertina 6
Despite its name, it was not founded by Charles Albert but only “re-founded” ...
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Borgo Dora and Balôn
Aurora - Via Borgo Dora
It takes its name from the Dora Riparia river which runs here and started being inhabited ...
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Holy Shroud Chapel
Centro - Piazza San Giovanni
Made by Guarino Guarini between 1668 and 1694, it has a circular shape and conical ...
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Pingone Home
Centro - Via della Basilica angolo Via Porta Palatina
The building dates back to the XV century. It was rehashed several times between ...
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Casa Fenoglio – La Fleur
San Donato - Via Principi D’Acaja 11
This splendid Art Nouveau building was inhabited by Pietro Fenoglio, the architect ...
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Scaccabarozzi Home – Slice of Polenta
Vanchiglia - Via Giulia di Barolo 9
This curious building was built by Alessandro Antonelli on a triangular plot owned ...
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Valentino Castle
San Salvario - Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli 39
Erected as a river villa in the 1500s, it was bought by Emmanuel Philibert in 1564. ...
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Cit Turin
Centro
It is the smallest district of the city and its name comes from a vernacular expression ...
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Contrada dei Guardinfanti
Centro
It is located in the webbing of streets on a grid across via Barbaroux, via Garibaldi, ...
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Cottolengo – Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza
Aurora - Via San Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo 14
The Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza is a huge care-giving and hospital centre ...
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Dome and Altar by Guarino Guarini
Centro - Via Palazzo di Città 4
The Guarini dome is considered to be the main technical innovation of the XVII-century ...
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Twelve Months Fountain
San Salvario - Via Matteo Maria Boiardo
The oval fountain was designed inside the Parco del Valentino by Carlo Ceppi for ...
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Igloo Fountain
Borgo San Paolo - Corso Mediterraneo, incrocio con Corso Lione
In the late 1960s, Merz produced systematic, archetypal works of Arte Povera. He ...
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Juventus Stadium
Madonna di Campagna - Via Druento 142/153
This stadium stands on the same site in north-west Turin as the old Stadio delle ...
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Lingotto
Nizza Millefonti - Via Nizza da 230 a 294
Turin’s former Fiat factory, commissioned by Giovanni Agnelli (1915) and designed ...
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Mole Antonelliana
Centro - Via Montebello 20
Architectural symbol of the city, it is named after architect Alessandro Antonelli ...
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Palazzo Bellia
Centro - Via Pietro Micca 4, 8
It is one of the most valuable Art Nouveau buildings of Turin. It was built near ...
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Palazzo Benso di Cavour
Centro - Via Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour 8
The palace used to be the residence of Camillo Benso Count of Cavour, who was born ...
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Palazzo Carignano
Centro - Via Accademia delle Scienze 5
Made by Guarino Guarini for Emmanuel Philibert from 1679, it is one of the best baroque ...
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Palazzo Ceriana
Centro - Piazza Solferino 11
Built between 1870 and 1878 by Carlo Ceppi for the rich Turin Ceriana family of bankers ...
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Palazzo Chiablese
Centro - Piazza San Giovanni 2
Built on medieval ruins, it was inhabited since 1642 by cardinal Maurice of Savoy. ...
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Palazzo dell'Università
Centro - Via Po 17
A building of remarkable historical-artistic value, it was built by Victor Amadeus ...
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Palazzo della Vittoria
Centro - Corso Francia 23
It is a building in eclectic style built in 1920 by Giovanni Battista Carrera following ...
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Palazzo Falletti di Barolo
Centro - Via delle Orfane 7
This prestigious XVII-century building was restructured by count Provana di Druent ...
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Palazzo Madama
Centro - Piazza Castello
The Palace stands on what used to be called Porta Decumana in the Roman period. Starting ...
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Palazzo Solaro del Borgo
Centro - Piazza San Carlo 183
The XVII-century building by Carlo di Castellamonte in piazza San Carlo was restructured ...
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Parco del Valentino
San Salvario - Corso Massimo D'Azeglio
The favourite park of Turin residents extends along the Po river for over 1.5 km. ...
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Piazza Carignano
Centro - Piazza Carignano
The design of what is considered to be the elegant cultural gathering of Turin was ...
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Piazza Carlo Emanuele II
Centro
Commonly known as piazza Carlina, it was first designed in octagonal shape and then ...
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Piazza Carlo Felice
Centro
Opposite the Porta Nuova railway station, it is one of the main intersections of ...
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Piazza Castello
Centro - Piazza Castello
Historical and cultural centre of the old Savoyard city and today’s modern ...
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Piazza della Repubblica – Porta Palazzo
Centro
It is the largest square of Turin and is commonly known as piazza di Porta Palazzo ...
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Piazza Palazzo di Città
Centro
Erected on the location of the Roman forum, in the medieval age it became piazza ...
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Piazza San Carlo
Centro
The most elegant and striking square of the city was designed by Carlo di Castellamonte ...
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Piazza Savoia
Centro
It stands on the western border of the old Roman city and on the location of Porta ...
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Piazza Solferino
Centro
The square has a rectangular shape and was known as the square of Wood, because it ...
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Piazza Statuto
Centro
It is one of the last XIX-century squares built in Turin (1864) and was financed ...
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Piazza Vittorio Veneto
Centro
The wide square (111 x 360 m) was designed by Giuseppe Frizzi in 1825 to connect ...
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Umberto I Bridge and Borgo Crimea
Borgo Crimea - Ponte Umberto I e Borgo Crimea
It was made between 1903 and 1907 by Vincenzo Micheli and Enrico Ristori as a replacement ...
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Porta Palatina
Centro - Piazza Cesare Augusto
Dating back to the I century AC, the Porta Principalis Sinistra was one of the gates ...
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Carignano Theatre
Centro - Piazza Carignano 6
It was erected in 1711 on a location which used to be occupied by "trincotto", the ...
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Teatro Regio
Centro - Piazza Castello 215
Built at the request of Victor Amadeus II, who wished to give the city a new opera ...
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Roman Theatre
Centro - Via XX Settembre 86
A XX-century railing hides the remains of the western part of the theatre from the ...
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Ascanio Vitozzi Tomb
Centro - Via Garibaldi angolo via XX Settembre
The church architect asked to be buried here after his death, on 19th May 1615 in ...
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Via Giuseppe Garibaldi
Centro
It is an elegant pedestrian area beginning in piazza Castello, in axis with the Juvarra-made ...
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Via Pietro Micca
Centro
It begins in piazza Castello and ends in piazza Solferino. Its construction dates ...
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Via Po
Centro
In the XVIII-century Grand Tour guides it was already mentioned as one of the best ...
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Via Roma
Centro
This very central and elegant shopping street connects piazza Castello and piazza ...
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Villino Raby
Centro - Corso Francia 8
Made by architect Pietro Fenoglio and Gottardo Gussoni (1901), it is one of the most ...