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10 comuni an hour from Turin in any direction
Comuni whose nearest major city is Turin, within a 60 minute drive of it. 10 towns shown, nearest first.
Table no. 8 · Ranked by min · 10 towns
Turin keeps its surroundings the way a private person keeps friends: close, loyal, and unadvertised. These comuni all sit within an hour of the city, their nearest major neighbor.
The spread runs from the Canavese castles to the Susa valley. Ordered by drive time, nearest first, for building day trips that leave after coffee and return before the aperitivo.
- 1.Venaria Reale28 min from TurinTorino · PiedmontA Savoy town on the edge of Torino, built around the Reggia di Venaria, a UNESCO baroque palace with sixty hectares of gardens.
- 2.Avigliana36 min from TurinTorino · PiedmontA medieval Savoy town at 383 meters at the mouth of the Susa Valley, between two glacial lakes and the abbey on the mountain above.
- 3.Agliè45 min from TurinTorino · PiedmontA Canavese borgo at 330 meters whose Castello Ducale, a UNESCO Savoy residence since 1997, has been held by the d'Agliè since 1259.
- 4.Racconigi49 min from TurinCuneo · PiedmontA Po-plain town south of Torino built around the UNESCO Castello Reale, the Carignano Savoy residence whose park holds Italy's largest white-stork colony.
- 5.Susa53 min from TurinTorino · PiedmontThe Roman gateway at 503 meters, seat of the Cozii under Augustus and Cottius.
- 6.Bra54 min from TurinCuneo · PiedmontA Roero town at 290 meters where the world's first gastronomic university now teaches food systems.
- 7.Ivrea56 min from TurinTorino · PiedmontRoman Eporedia, Olivetti's twentieth-century industrial city, UNESCO since 2018, where every February three hundred tons of oranges are thrown.
- 8.Cocconato57 min from TurinAsti · PiedmontA Monferrato ridge town at 491 meters with a microclimate mild enough to grow palms and olives this far north.
- 9.Alba58 min from TurinCuneo · PiedmontThe Langhe capital at 172 meters on the Tanaro, world reference for white truffle and Nebbiolo, headquarters of Ferrero.
- 10.La Morra59 min from TurinCuneo · PiedmontThe hilltop above the Barolo zone, more Nebbiolo acreage than any other commune.
TEN OF THE TOP TEN ARE IN PIEDMONT
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