A lively and elegant city, gentle hills, crystal-clear lakes and the imposing ring of the Alps from Val Pellice to the Canavese valleys, pristine landscapes that were the backdrop to great historical events and that still guard millenary traditions. The Torino area will gift you with extraordinary experiences.
Torino invites you to discover its broad tree-lined avenues, rich in artistic and architectural beauties, and to enjoy the many little pleasures that have always made it unique. Torino – the first capital of Italy, today again at the centre of the international scene – is surrounded by vegetation: it gently leans against the feet of luxuriant hills and is encircled by the winding course of the Po river, thereby forming a marvelous whole with its surrounding areas.

Elegant buildings and magnificent palaces, ancient beauty and contemporary art: in Torino and its surrounding you will take a fascinating journey through time. From the Roman traces in Susa to the medieval vestiges of San Martino of Ciriè church, from the gothic lines of Pinerolo cathedral to the triumph of baroque with works by Carlo and Amedeo di Castellamonte, Guarino Guarini and Filippo Juvarra, among which the Palace of Venaria Reale, Palazzo Carignano, the Basilica of Superga and the Ducal Castle of Agliè.

Many doors wide-open on surprising world with over 80 museums, in and outside Torino. In the striking setting of the Mole Antonelliana you will find the Museo Nazionale del Cinema: this is the only place it should be, as it was in Torino that Italian cinema was born at the beginning of the twentieth century. Would you prefer to glance at a less recent past? The Museo Egizio is the second most important in the world (after the one in Cairo).

Relive atmospheres of bygone time and the magnificence of Torino in the marvelous Royal Residences, the famous dwellings of the Savoy dynasty, declared “World Heritage” by UNESCO in 1997. Both the majestic Palazzo Reale – designed by Carlo di Castellamonte – and Palazzo Madama – hosting the very rich Museo Civico di Arte Antica beyond the beautiful baroque façade by the talented architect Filippo Juvarra – give onto Piazza Castello. A stone’s throw away from the city centre, the hills are home to Villa della Regina, while the Basilica of Superga, where the Royal Tombs are kept, soars visibly from any part of Torino.

All of Torino area is dotted with fortresses and castles, indelible signs of history going by, fascinating memory of those who inhabited these places. The Fort of Exilles stands out sternly at the centre of the Valle di Susa: it was built in 1155 to check the border; among its most famous prisoners it boasts the mysterious Iron Mask.
In Val Chisone there is the Fort of Fenestrelle: it was wanted around 1720 by Vittorio Amedeo II and is the largest fortified structure in Europe and the lasrgest brickwork after the Great Wall of China.

Pralormo Castle was built for defence purposes in the fourteenth century and was turned into a residence and representation building in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the small rose garden, already quoted in a text from 1574, became a romantic English-style park, which is to this day a must for flower lovers, especially when the bulbs of “Messer Tulipano” bloom.

Mazzè Castle is an imposing complex made up of two factory bodies built between 1200 and 1800.