The Basilica of Corpus Domini is the Baroque church that Turin built where, according to tradition, its Eucharistic miracle took place on June 6, 1453. Outside, a solemn façade of columns and statues; inside, a single nave all in dark...
Torino Porta Nuova railway station is the main railway station of Turin. It is the third busiest station in Italy for passenger flow after Rome Termini and Milan Central, with about 192,000 journeys per day and 70 million travellers a year and a...
The Palazzo Chiablese is a Savoy residence in Piazza San Giovanni, in the historic center of Turin, next to the Cathedral and the Royal Palace. It is part of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and still...
The Basilica of Mary Help of Christians is the great church that Don Bosco wanted in Valdocco, the Turin neighborhood where the Salesian work began. The saint rests here, and all around, his work is still very much alive.
Around it stands...
This church was built during the period 1642 - 74 to plans by Andrea Costaguta at the behest of Maria Cristina of France, whose remains are kept here. The façade, attributed to Carlo Filippo Aliberti, dates from 1764. The chapels, at either end...
The Intesa Sanpaolo Skyscraper is the glass-and-steel tower designed by Renzo Piano in the Cit Turin district, a short walk from the center. At 167.25 meters, it is the bank's headquarters and one of the most modern marks on Turin's...
The Juventus Stadium, also known as Allianz Stadium, is Juventus's home in the northwest of Turin, between the Vallette and Lucento districts. It holds over 41,000 spectators and was the first modern club-owned stadium in Italy.
It stands...
The building of the church began in 1619. The façade was built in 1834 and is the work of Ferdinando Caronesi, whose plans were inspired by the designs of Filippo Juvarra for the nearby church of Santa Cristina. Inside the church on each side of...
Piazza Vittorio Veneto, simply Piazza Vittorio to Turin locals, is the great arcaded square at the end of Via Po, open to the river and the hill. By day it is an elegant lounge, by night one of the city's busiest meeting places.
It...
The Pietro Micca Museum tells the story of the siege of Turin in 1706 and lets you go down into the underground tunnels of the old Citadel, a short walk from the Keep, near Porta Susa. Here a Savoyard miner became the city's hero.
In the...
The Accorsi-Ometto Museum is a decorative arts museum on Via Po, in the center of Turin: twenty-seven rooms furnished like an 18th-century home, with over three thousand objects. You visit it like a gentleman's house, where every room has its own...
Palazzo Barolo is a patrician residence on Via delle Orfane, in the heart of Turin, built at the end of the 17th century. Visitors find a Baroque palace with stucco, frescoes and grand halls, where in the 19th century the Marchesi di Barolo and...
This chapel was inaugurated in 1692 and was commissioned by the Congregation of Bankers and Merchants. An important example of public commitment, this jewel of Baroque art was perfectly restored between 1956 and 1957. The chapel is dedicated to...
The Teatro Carignano (Carignano Theatre) is a theatre in Turin and one of the oldest and most important theatres in Italy. Designed by Benedetto Alfieri, it is located opposite the Palazzo Carignano.
Building commenced in 1752 and the theatre...
Stadio Olimpico di Torino (originally Stadio Municipale Benito Mussolini and formerly Stadio Comunale Vittorio Pozzo) is a stadium located in the Santa Rita district in the south of Turin, Italy that is the home of the club Torino. It was the...
Ten thousand screaming girls, arrived from half of Italy, and the streets of Porta Nuova blocked by fans outside the singers' hotel. It was April 28, 1995, and Take That were playing at the PalaStampa.
The arena in the Vallette district,...
The Palasport Olimpico or Olympic Arena or Palaisozaki (from the name of the architect) is a multipurpose indoor sports/concert arena located at the Santa Rita district.
It is a few metres east of the Olympic Stadium. With its 12,300 seats...
The Fetta di Polenta ("Slice of Polenta"), officially Casa Scaccabarozzi, is one of the most curious buildings in Turin: a yellow house of nine floors, tall and extremely thin, on the corner of Corso San Maurizio and Via Giulia di Barolo, in the...
The church was built to the plans of Filippo Juvarra between 1732 and 1736 and completed by Agliaudo di Tavigliano, Francesco Benedetto Feroggio and Ignazio Birago di Borgaro. The façade was built in 1872 and then faithfully restored in 1955...
Turin boasts a Puppet Museum that is undoubtedly among the largest in Italy. It houses, in the exhibition halls annexed to the Teatro Gianduja, the relics of the Lupi family, a famous dynasty of puppeteers, active in Turin for over two centuries...
The Radio Museum could only have been set up in Turin, the city that saw the birth of Italian radio, and it was the RAI that created this project in the nineteen sixties. The material collected, ordered and catalogued includes original documents,...
An amazing show-workshop about environment: an information point a start for new individual and general behaviors; a place for temporary expositions and new ideas concerning the environment.
Visiting the 1000 m2 of exposition, organized in...
Palazzo Cavour is one of the best examples of Piedmontese Baroque architecture of the eighteenth century and it is also one of the most important historical buildings in Turin. It was in this building and within its rooms that the famous...
Palazzo Bricherasio is an elegant neoclassical palace in the center of Turin, on Via Lagrange, a few steps from Piazza San Carlo and Via Roma. It has a storybook history: here, in 1899, a group of aristocrats signed the founding act of...
Cisterna Palace, an abbreviation of Dal Pozzo della Cisterna Palace, was built starting in 1675 by Antonio Maurizio Valperga, or his brother Andrea, on behalf of the Ripa di Giaglione count family. It passed into the ownership of the Dal Pozzo...
The Mastio della Cittadella (Citadel Keep) is what remains of the great pentagonal fortress of the Savoy in Turin, in the southwest corner of the center, between Corso Galileo Ferraris and Via Cernaia. The two-story entrance building is the only...
This museum is the first of its kind in Europe, and Turin's oldest museum. It was founded at the Royal Arsenal by King Charles Emmanuel III in 1731, for the benefit of the young artillery men studying at the School of Theory founded by Ignazio...
The newly-founded Fondazione Merz in the former Lancia heating plant aims at giving the visitor the immediate sensation that he is not only visiting an art-exhibition, but is getting the chance to immerse in an entire landscape. We wish to flank...
This circular church was built between 1598 and 1606 to the designs of Ascanio Vitozzi who is buried here. The frescoes inside the dome are the work of Francesco Gonin and Luigi Vacca (1844-47). The marble decorations and furnishings are...
This church is dedicated to the antique protectors of the city, Solutore, Avventore and Ottavio. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1577 under the direction of Pellegrino Tibaldi. The classical façade is decorated with wooden statues carved by...