Turin, under the arcades.
Egyptian galleries, Savoy palaces, vermouth bars and the long road out to the Barolo hills. What each tour is really like, what it costs, and where to book it.
Seven tours that make a Turin trip.
First visit or fifth, these are the tours a Turin itinerary gets built around. The Egyptian Museum without the queue, an evening walk through the magic city, a tasting flight in a Barolo cellar.
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★ 4.7Safe betTurin & Piedmont 3-Day City CardFrom $521,434 reviews
★ 4.8Books out fastEgyptian Museum Small Group Skip-the-Line Guided TourFrom $931,332 reviews
★ 4.2City favouriteHop-on Hop-off Bus Tour with 24 or 48-Hour TicketFrom $22941 reviews
★ 4.8Worth the ticketSmall-Group Walking Tour of Top City HighlightsFrom $45839 reviews
★ 4.4Easy winJuventus Museum entry ticket & Stadium TourFrom $34561 reviews
★ 4.6Traveller pickUnderground Tunnels Guided TourFrom $62541 reviews
One hour south, the vines begin.
Leave the porticoes after breakfast and reach Barolo by late morning. Cellar tastings among the great crus, a truffle lunch in Alba, the Langhe rolling gold to the skyline. Piedmont drinks the way it lives, without hurry.
Which Turin do you want first?
Everyone arrives for a different Turin, and the city obliges. Three honest ways in. Pick the one that sounds like your trip, and every tour behind it is already reviewed and priced.
Savoy Turin
The royal city
1.5 hours · from $42 · 233 reviews
Turin was the first capital of Italy and still keeps the court to prove it. The Royal Palace and its armoury, Palazzo Madama on Piazza Castello, the gardens of Venaria Reale, and the chapel built for the Holy Shroud. Grand and deliberate, and best with a guide who knows the order to see it in.
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Torino Magica
The magic city
from $62 · 1,447 reviews
Turin sits on two of the old magic triangles, or so the story goes, and the city leans right into it. Tunnels beneath the centre, the black heart and the white, alchemists and a devilish doorway on Piazza Statuto. A walk after dark that reads the streets sideways.
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Cafes and aperitivo
The sweet city
1.5 hours · from $51 · 83 reviews
The city that invented gianduja and the aperitivo takes both seriously. A bicerin in a marble cafe that has not changed the recipe in two centuries, a gianduiotto folded like a little boat, a vermouth poured where Casa Martini poured the first. Turin at a slower pulse.
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The city that poured the first vermouth.
Turin named the aperitivo and built the bars to match it. Casa Martini out at Chieri, the marble counters on Piazza Castello, a red vermouth over ice at six while the porticoes fill. Come thirsty and let the evening set its own pace.
Turin eats between the sights.
Street food through the Quadrilatero, a gourmet crawl of the old delis, chocolate that built city fortunes. If you book three food hours in Turin, make them these.
See more, walk less.
The centre is flat and made for it. An e-bike along the Po, a Vespa up to the basilica on the hill, a Segway loop of the royal squares. A full day of Turin in an easy morning.
Four hundred years of Savoy.
The first capital of Italy still holds its court. The Royal Palace and its armoury, Palazzo Madama over Piazza Castello, the vast park at Venaria Reale, the chapel built for the Holy Shroud. Book the right hours and the whole royal quarter opens up.
Pick your Turin, corner by corner.
The city works in quarters and the region in valleys. The Roman grid for the cafes, Piazza Castello for the palaces, the Mole for the view, then the hills once the city is done with you.
Twelve kinds of Turin day.
Twelve ways into the same city. Pick the one that sounds like your kind of day and every option behind it is already reviewed and priced.
The region, a morning away.
The valleys open the moment the city ends. Barolo cellars, the truffle markets of Alba, an abbey on a mountain, a royal palace in its park. All within reach of Porta Nuova and back by dinner.
Three days in the first capital.
You cannot see all of Turin in one trip, but you can absolutely do the right three days. This is the sequence to hand a friend landing at Caselle tomorrow.
Day 1
Into the first capital
Piazza Castello at opening, the arcades toward Piazza San Carlo, the lift up the Mole for the whole city at once. Coffee under the porticoes, easy pace, maximum Turin.
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Day 2
Museums and marble cafes
The Egyptian Museum first thing, Palazzo Madama by noon, a bicerin in a two-hundred-year-old cafe, then aperitivo on Piazza Vittorio as the lights come up.
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Day 3
South to the vines
The road to Barolo, a cellar or two, a long truffle lunch in Alba, the Langhe gold all the way back. Check the harvest calendar and move this to the clearest day.
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