Centro & Quadrilatero Romano

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Where it sits

The circle is Centro & Quadrilatero Romano and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• Piazza San Carlo5 min walk428 m
• Gianduiotto & chocolate6 min walk487 m
• Via Roma & the arcades7 min walk610 m
• Gran Madre & the Po16 min walk1.3 km
• Monte dei Cappuccini20 min walk1.7 km
• Parco del Valentino & Borgo Medievale21 min walk1.8 km
• Lingotto rooftop & Pinacoteca Agnelli14 min taxi4.7 km
• Basilica of Superga20 min taxi6.7 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 1.Mole Antonelliana & Cinema Museum — The soaring spired landmark on the skyline, built as a synagogue and now home to a brilliant National Cinema Museum staged in its cavernous hall — ride the glass lift straight up the middle to a terrace over the Alps. Turin's symbol, and its best view.
• 2.Museo Egizio — The oldest museum of ancient Egypt in the world and the greatest outside Cairo — mummies, a whole rock temple, statues and the tomb of an architect, beautifully staged. An unmissable couple of hours; book a slot ahead.
• 3.Royal Palace of Turin — The sumptuous Savoy royal palace complex on Piazza Castello — gilded state rooms, the royal armoury, gardens and the chapel that holds the Holy Shroud. A UNESCO site and the seat of the dynasty that made Italy.
• 4.Piazza Castello & Palazzo Madama — The monumental heart of the city — a vast arcaded square around Palazzo Madama, a castle-palace with a baroque façade and a fine art museum inside. Everything radiates from here; a grand place to get your bearings.
• 6.Quadrilatero Romano — The old Roman grid north of the centre, now the best-loved quarter for aperitivo and dinner — cobbled lanes of wine bars, trattorias and buzzing evening tables. Come at seven for a spritz and the free buffet.
• 7.Duomo & the Holy Shroud — Turin's Renaissance cathedral, home to the Shroud of Turin — the famous linen kept locked away, with a full replica and the story on display. Quiet and central, beside the Roman gate and the palace.
• 14.The historic cafés & bicerin — Turin's 18th- and 19th-century cafés are institutions of marble, mirrors and velvet — sit for a bicerin (coffee, chocolate, cream) or a vermouth where Nietzsche and Cavour once did. A ritual as much as a drink.