1 – The Birth of Mummification
The building houses an immense collection of Egyptian artifacts, considered a powerful reservoir of ancient magic that emanates through its very walls.
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Turin City Guide
Ciceru walks Turin through the arcaded centre the Savoys built to stay dry — Piazza Castello, the Egyptian Museum's doorstep, the Devil's Door on Via XX Settembre — and out west to Piazza Statuto, where the city keeps its darker stories. Routes built from our own guides' walking notes.
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The stops
Things to do in Turin
Our Turin route runs east to west: from Piazza Castello and the royal core down past the Egyptian Museum, through the Quadrilatero, and out to Piazza Statuto and Cit Turin, where the Liberty villas and the city's occult reputation meet.
Piazza Vittorio Veneto: the square that hides its slope
Mole Antonelliana: the tower that outgrew its budget
Piazza Carlina: the royal square that got downgraded
Portone del Diavolo: Turin's Devil's Door
Legend claims this demonic door, featuring a knocker of Satan himself, appeared overnight to trap a sorcerer who unwisely invoked him. [atlasobscura.com](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/devils-door-turin-italy)
Piazza San Carlo: the city's grand living room
Palazzo Carignano: the curved brick birthplace of Italy
Galleria Subalpina: the glass-roofed promenade
The Galleria Subalpina, officially known as the Galleria dell'Industria Subalpina, is an enclosed commercial shopping passage in the historic center of Turin. Serving as an…
Palazzo Madama: the palace with two faces
From the outside, gaze upon the palace where Maria Cristina of France, the 'Madama Reale,' is said to have secretly practiced alchemy in a hidden basement laboratory. [angolitorino.com](https://angolitorino.com/en/alchemical-caves/)
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Weather & crowds
Best time to visit
September and October are the best trade-off: 23 °C and 17 °C by day, with truffle season and the art fairs. Pay for it in rain — 84 mm and 106 mm. May is mild but the wettest month at 145 mm. July is warmest at 27.9 °C. January nights average −2.5 °C, colder than most expect of Italy.
Winter lights
Nov–Feb-2–11°C/ 28–52°F
Getting busierOccasional rain
- Driest months of the year
- Luci d'Artista lights up
- Nights average below freezing in December and January
- Po valley fog
Don't miss
Luci d'Artista (November–January)
Nitto ATP Finals (November)
Spring rains
Mar–May3–21°C/ 37–69°F
BusyWet
- Mild days by May
- Royal gardens in bloom
- May is the wettest month of the year at 145 mm
Don't miss
Salone Internazionale del Libro (May)
Alpine summer
Jun–Aug14–28°C/ 57–82°F
BusyOccasional rain
- July is relatively dry
- Riverside evenings on the Po
- Heatwaves and tropical nights
- Many family-run places shut around Ferragosto
Don't miss
Kappa FuturFestival (July)
Festa di San Giovanni (24 June)
Autumn gastronomy
Sep–Oct7–23°C/ 45–73°F
Peak seasonWet
- White truffle season
- September averages 23 °C
- October brings 106 mm of rain
- Daylight shortens quickly
Don't miss
Terra Madre Salone del Gusto (September, biennial)
Artissima (November)
Transport
How to get to & around Turin
Torino Caselle TRN
| Train to Torino Porta Susa | 30 min | €3.70 |
|---|---|---|
| Arriva coach to Porta Nuova | 45 min | €7.50 |
| Official taxi to the centre | 30 min | ~€40.00 |
Milan Malpensa MXP
| Arriva coach to Porta Susa | 1 h 50 min | €22.00 |
|---|
Metro & tram (GTT)
Best defaultA City100 is €1.90 digital or contactless, €2.00 on paper, valid 100 minutes with one metro entrance. Line 1 is driverless and runs the spine from Fermi through Porta Susa and Porta Nuova to Lingotto.
Walking
Under the arcadesA flat Roman grid with 18 km of covered porticoes, built so the royal family could cross the city out of the rain. They still work. Mind the river-stone paving when wet.
Taxi
Ranks and apps onlyYou cannot hail one in the street. Use a marked rank in a piazza or book through an app. Worth it late at night and for the airport, where the fare to the centre is capped at around €40.
Rental car
ZTL camerasThe historic core is camera-enforced on weekday mornings and fines run above €100. Parking is scarce and metered. There is no journey inside the city that a car makes better.
Walk the centre under the arcades, buying City100 fares as you go. Two Dailies at €7.40 beat the €7.80 48-hour pass. Only over three days does the €10.30 72-hour Tour win, by €0.80.
Budget
How much does it cost to visit Turin?
Turin is inexpensive to move around and to eat in — €1.90 a ride and a set lunch under €16 — and noticeably cheaper than Milan for the same day. The costs that surprise people are the museum tickets and the nightly tourist tax, which is charged on top of the room rate at the property.
| Espresso standing at the counter | €1.10–€1.50 |
|---|---|
| Bicerin in a historic café | €6.00–€7.50 |
| Weekday set lunch | €11.00–€16.00 |
| Glass of Piedmont wine | €4.50–€7.50 |
| Single City100 transit fare | €1.90–€2.00 |
| Daily transit ticket | €3.70 |
| Taxi from the airport | €40.00 |
| Tourist tax, per person per night | €1.00–€5.00 |
Cash or card?
Cards work almost everywhere, including transit gates and small bars. Keep coins for the stalls at Porta Palazzo, where small vendors still prefer them. Decline the machine's offer to charge you in your home currency — the rate is always worse.
Where to stay
Where to stay in Turin
Centro Storico
First visit, museumsBaroque squares, the widest arcades and the royal palaces, with Porta Nuova and the metro on the doorstep. The most expensive rooms in the city, and ZTL restrictions make arriving by car awkward.
Quadrilatero Romano
Eating and eveningsThe Roman grid north of Via Garibaldi, thick with old taverns and small restaurants. Street noise carries late, and dragging a suitcase over the cobbles is a genuine nuisance.
Cit Turin
Porta Susa, trainsLiberty-era streets west of Porta Susa, handy if you are arriving and leaving by rail and would rather not sleep in the middle of the nightlife. Quiet, with the metro at the station.
San Salvario
Nightlife, budgetStudent quarter beside Porta Nuova and the Valentino, with the best cheap eating in the city. Loud along Via Baretti at weekends, and partly inside the 2026 reinforced-patrol areas.
Crocetta
Quiet, architectureAffluent and residential, known for Art Nouveau villas and tree-lined avenues, a short walk or one metro stop from the centre. Peaceful to the point that late dining options are thin.
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Safety
Is Turin safe?
Official advice puts general crime levels in Italy low, and Turin is no exception. The real risk is opportunistic theft, concentrated in a few predictable places — the two main stations, crowded trams, and Porta Palazzo at its busiest. Six areas have reinforced patrolling from March 2026; those are policing priorities, not places to avoid.
Porta Nuova and Porta Susa
Both stations warrant real attention to phone, wallet and luggage, especially around ticket machines and the arcades outside. Sort your bags before you reach the concourse, not while standing in it.
Porta Palazzo at peak
Europe's largest open-air market is worth the visit and busiest in the morning, which is exactly when distraction theft happens. Carry the day's cash in a front pocket and leave the rest at the hotel.
Crowded trams
The north–south tram trunk routes fill at commuting hours. Bags closed, phone away from loose outer pockets — the same discipline as any European tram city.
Summer heat
ARPA recorded a long heatwave and repeated tropical nights in Turin in June 2026. In July and August the heat is a more likely problem than crime: carry water and use the arcades, which is what they were built for.
Emergencies in your language
Call 112 for anything. Piedmont's single dispatch centre answers in Italian, English, French and German, and routes to police, fire or the 118 ambulance service.
Good to know
Good to know
Digital transit costs less
A City100 is €1.90 through the app, a BIP card or contactless, against €2.00 on paper. The Tour passes follow the same pattern: €7.80 and €10.30 digital, €9.50 and €12.50 on paper.
The tax caps by year, not by stay
From April 2026 the tourist tax runs €1–€5 a night and stops after seven taxable nights — but that cap is now counted across the calendar year, so a second visit in the same year may fall under it.
The bicerin is not stirred
Espresso, drinking chocolate and cold cream, layered in a glass and invented at Caffè Al Bicerin in 1763. It is served in that order on purpose. Stirring it is the tell that you are not from here.
Afternoons close, and so does August
Independent shops and old taverns shut between roughly 13:00 and 15:30. In mid-August a good number of family-run places close for two or three weeks around Ferragosto.
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Yes. SMAT, the metropolitan water utility, draws from protected Alpine aquifers and runs continuous chemical and microbiological testing across the network. You can also refill for free at the toret — the small cast-iron fountains with a bull's head spout, of which there are more than 800 across the city. They run continuously by design, to keep pressure up in the line.
The train. It runs from the terminal station straight to Torino Porta Susa in about 30 minutes for €3.70, seven days a week, and the station sits opposite the arrivals hall, so there is no shuttle in between. The Arriva coach to Porta Nuova costs €7.50 and a taxi is around €40. Note that a normal GTT city ticket is not valid on the airport train — you need the regional rail ticket.
Do the arithmetic before you buy the pass. A digital Daily is €3.70, so two days cost €7.40 — and the 48-hour Tour pass is €7.80, which is more. Over three days it flips: three Dailies are €11.10 against €10.30 for the 72-hour Tour, saving €0.80. The 48-hour pass buys you continuous validity, not a discount.
Yes. A City100 costs €1.90 through the TO Move app, a BIP card, or contactless Tap&Go straight on the vehicle reader — against €2.00 for the paper version. It is valid 100 minutes and includes one metro entrance. Validate every time you change vehicle, not just when you start.
Since 1 April 2026 it runs from €1 to €5 per person per night depending on where you stay: €1 in a hostel or campsite, €3.50 in a three-star hotel, €4.50 in a four-star, €5 at five-star and luxury properties, and €3.80 for B&Bs, guesthouses and short-term rentals. It is capped at seven taxable nights, now counted across the whole year rather than per stay. The property collects it.
It pays off if you are visiting three or more of the big venues. The Museo Egizio, Musei Reali and the Reggia di Venaria come to about €53 in separate tickets, against €39 for the 48-hour card. One thing that catches people out: the card does not include public transport, so you still need GTT tickets on top.
It works, but treat it as the alternative rather than the local airport. Arriva runs a direct coach between Malpensa and Turin, 15 return services across 16 hours a day, at €22 one way. Booking ahead is required, and in peak periods it genuinely matters — turning up without a reservation can mean not boarding.
No, and it is actively a liability. The historic core is covered by camera-enforced ZTL restrictions on weekday mornings, with fines above €100, and on-street parking is scarce and metered. The centre is flat, laid out on a Roman grid, and served by an automated metro and a dense tram network.