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10 comuni an hour from Turin in any direction
Ten towns: what each is best for, what a home costs, and the catch. A square meter runs from €500 in Agliè to €2,550 in Alba.
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 · PiemonteBest for a long lunch. Food guides list two tables here.homes €910 to €2,000 a m² · 32,035 peopleA 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 · PiemonteBest for a stage of a long walk. The Via Francigena passes through.homes €900 to €1,500 a m² · 12,139 peopleA 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 · PiemonteBest for a World Heritage site. UNESCO lists a site in the comune.homes €500 to €730 a m² · 2,585 peopleA 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 · PiemonteBest for a trip without a car. The train stops in the commune.homes €800 to €1,200 a m² in the center · 9,628 peopleA 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 · PiemonteBest for everyday life on foot. Nine of the ten everyday services we look for are mapped within 500 meters of the center.homes €660 to €1,100 a m² · 5,840 peopleThe Roman gateway at 503 meters, seat of the Cozii under Augustus and Cottius.
- 6.Bra54 min from TurinCuneo · PiemonteBest for Bra DOP. The town gives its name to Bra DOP.homes €970 to €1,550 a m² in the center · 29,673 peopleA Roero town at 290 meters where the world's first gastronomic university now teaches food systems.
- 7.Ivrea56 min from TurinTorino · PiemonteBest for a stage of a long walk. The Via Francigena passes through.homes €700 to €1,350 a m² in the center · 22,532 peopleRoman 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 · PiemonteBest for a walk through the old town. It is on the list of Italy's most beautiful villages.homes €530 to €780 a m² in the center · 1,399 peopleA Monferrato ridge town at 491 meters with a microclimate mild enough to grow palms and olives this far north.
- 9.Alba58 min from TurinCuneo · PiemonteBest for truffle season. It belongs to the national association of truffle towns.homes €1,700 to €2,550 a m² in the center · 30,987 peopleThe Langhe capital at 172 meters on the Tanaro, world reference for white truffle and Nebbiolo, headquarters of Ferrero.
- 10.La Morra59 min from TurinCuneo · PiemonteBest for a wine weekend. It belongs to the national association of wine towns.homes €1,100 to €1,600 a m² in the center · 2,658 peopleThe hilltop above the Barolo zone, more Nebbiolo acreage than any other commune.
TEN OF THE TOP TEN ARE IN PIEMONTE
We write letters from the Italian towns we visit: the town, what is worth eating there, and when to turn up. It is free, and you can leave whenever you like.
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