Start from 37 curated places around Turin, IT, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Caffè Al Bicerin dal 1763
The birthplace of the bicerin — Turin's layered drink of dark chocolate, espresso, and cream that you're not supposed to mix. Founded in 1763, it's staffed almost entirely by women by tradition, the interior is almost unchanged, and the hot chocolate is the real deal.
Ristorante Consorzio
This is Piedmontese cooking at its most uncompromising — finanziera (a stew of offal and sweetbreads), agnolotti stuffed with three meats, Fassona beef tartare hand-cut to order. Dark room, no music, no frills. The wine list leans Barolo and Barbera. You're here for the food.
Trails & outdoors
Basilica di Superga via Parco Meisino
This 13km loop from the city starts along the Po through Meisino Nature Reserve, then climbs through the Collina di Superga woods to the Basilica at the top. The river stretch is flat and shaded; the woodland climb earns the views you get at the summit.
Monte dei Cappuccini Trail
A short, steep 10-minute climb from the Po riverbank up to the Capuchin church on the hill, which frames the city's most photographed angle — Mole Antonelliana with the Alps behind it. You can extend the walk along the Collina Torinese ridge or drop back down and continue along the Po path.
Things to do
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Inside the Mole Antonelliana, this is one of the best film museums in the world — the five-story Temple Hall is a cinema cathedral, and the exhibits trace Italian cinema from early magic lanterns through neorealism and beyond. The glass elevator through the exhibits to the panoramic dome is the ticket.
Teatro Regio Torino
Turin's main opera house sits on Piazza Castello with a modernist interior from the 1970s — the stage is the second-largest in Europe after Paris, the acoustics are excellent, and the programming covers full opera, ballet, and concert seasons. The red-and-white cave-like auditorium is an acquired aesthetic taste.
Landmarks & sights
Mole Antonelliana
Turin's improbable spire — originally built as a synagogue in the 1800s, it now houses the National Museum of Cinema and a glass panoramic elevator that shoots you up through the exhibits to the dome. The view of the Alps on a clear day is something else entirely.
Museo Egizio
The second-largest Egyptian collection outside Cairo lives here, in a museum that was radically redesigned and feels genuinely immersive rather than dusty. Twenty-four mummies, the Gallery of Kings, and over 26,000 artifacts make this a full half-day minimum.