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Day trips from Torino

36 towns within 90 minutes

Closest first. Venaria Reale is 28 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.

Venaria Reale
Province: Torino · 269 m
28 minutes from Torino. A Savoy town on the edge of Torino, built around the Reggia di Venaria, a UNESCO baroque palace with sixty hectares of gardens.
Avigliana
Province: Torino · 383 m
36 minutes from Torino. A medieval Savoy town at 383 meters at the mouth of the Susa Valley, between two glacial lakes and the abbey on the mountain above.
Agliè
Province: Torino · 330 m
45 minutes from Torino. A Canavese borgo at 330 meters whose Castello Ducale, a UNESCO Savoy residence since 1997, has been held by the d'Agliè since 1259.
Racconigi
Province: Cuneo · 262 m
49 minutes from Torino. A 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.
Susa
Province: Torino · 503 m
53 minutes from Torino. The Roman gateway at 503 meters, seat of the Cozii under Augustus and Cottius.
Bra
Province: Cuneo · 290 m
54 minutes from Torino. A Roero town at 290 meters where the world's first gastronomic university now teaches food systems.
Ivrea
Province: Torino · 267 m
56 minutes from Torino. Roman Eporedia, Olivetti's twentieth-century industrial city, UNESCO since 2018, where every February three hundred tons of oranges are thrown.
Cocconato
Province: Asti · 491 m
57 minutes from Torino. A Monferrato ridge town at 491 meters with a microclimate mild enough to grow palms and olives this far north.
Alba
Province: Cuneo · 172 m
58 minutes from Torino. The Langhe capital at 172 meters on the Tanaro, world reference for white truffle and Nebbiolo, headquarters of Ferrero.
La Morra
Province: Cuneo · 513 m
59 minutes from Torino. The hilltop above the Barolo zone, more Nebbiolo acreage than any other commune.
Verduno
Province: Cuneo · 381 m
60 minutes from Torino. A Langhe hilltop at 381 meters, the home village of the Pelaverga grape.
Guarene
Province: Cuneo · 360 m
62 minutes from Torino. A Roero hilltop village at 360 meters above the Tanaro, whose Roero family baroque castle is now a luxury hotel and contemporary art destination.
Barolo
Province: Cuneo · 301 m
63 minutes from Torino. A Langhe borgo at 301 meters whose Castello Falletti gave its name to the wine the Marchesi turned dry in the 1830s with Cavour's help.
Castiglione Falletto
Province: Cuneo · 350 m
64 minutes from Torino. A Barolo hilltop commune in the Langhe, ringed by vineyards on both sides of its ridge.
Grinzane Cavour
Province: Cuneo · 195 m
64 minutes from Torino. The Langhe village whose eleventh-century castle was Cavour's mayoral seat for seventeen years and now hosts the November Alba White Truffle World Auction.
Serralunga d'Alba
Province: Cuneo · 414 m
64 minutes from Torino. A 527-inhabitant Barolo cru village at 414 meters on a Langhe ridge, crowned by a 14th-century French-style donjon castle of the Falletti.
Cherasco
Province: Cuneo · 288 m
65 minutes from Torino. A walled grid-plan town on the river terrace where the Stura di Demonte meets the Tanaro, on the western edge of the Langhe.
Govone
Province: Cuneo · 301 m
65 minutes from Torino. A Roero hill village above the Tanaro, between Alba and Asti, built around a Savoy summer residence turned town hall.
Neive
Province: Cuneo · 308 m
66 minutes from Torino. A hilltop borgo at 308 meters in the Barbaresco zone, named for the Roman gens Naevia, with four wines in commercial volume.
Monforte d'Alba
Province: Cuneo · 480 m
68 minutes from Torino. A Barolo cru village at 480 meters where the Cathars were burned in 1028 and where the summer jazz festival fills the old piazza.
Dogliani
Province: Cuneo · 295 m
70 minutes from Torino. A two-tier Langhe town at 295 meters, the Borgo by the Rea stream and the Castello on the hill, capital of Dolcetto di Dogliani DOCG.
Candelo
Province: Biella · 350 m
71 minutes from Torino. A Biellese commune at 350 meters whose Ricetto, a 13th-century fortified shelter of two hundred stone cellule, is the best-preserved in Piedmont.
Castagnole delle Lanze
Province: Asti · 298 m
72 minutes from Torino. An Asti hill town at 298 meters between Langhe and Monferrato, with two Baroque churches and a nineteenth-century astronomical tower.
Moncalvo
Province: Asti · 305 m
74 minutes from Torino. Italy's smallest city by title, 2,730 residents on a Monferrato ridge, with a five-hundred-year truffle tradition and Guglielmo Caccia's home churches.
Serralunga di Crea
Province: Alessandria · 302 m
74 minutes from Torino. A commune of 503 holding the Sacro Monte di Crea, a UNESCO Sacri Monti site of 23 chapels around a Marian sanctuary.
Casale Monferrato
Province: Alessandria · 116 m
75 minutes from Torino. The historic capital of the Marchesato del Monferrato at 116 meters on the Po, where the Paleologi castle and the Baroque synagogue still stand.
Nizza Monferrato
Province: Asti · 267 m
78 minutes from Torino. The capital of Barbera at 267 meters in the upper Monferrato, founded 1225.
Biella
Province: Biella · 417 m
81 minutes from Torino. A wool city at 417 meters in the Alpine foothills, where the medieval Piazzo sits above the modern Piano, connected by a funicular since 1885.
Gattinara
Province: Vercelli · 265 m
81 minutes from Torino. The Alto Piemonte Nebbiolo town on volcanic soil between the Sesia and Monte Rosa, DOCG since 1990, with a tenth-century watchtower above the vines.
Santo Stefano Belbo
Province: Cuneo · 175 m
81 minutes from Torino. A Belbo valley village at 175 meters between the Langhe and Asti hills, birthplace of Cesare Pavese and the largest producer of Moscato d'Asti.
Canelli
Province: Asti · 157 m
82 minutes from Torino. The Asti Spumante town at 157 meters in the Belbo valley, where 20 kilometers of underground tuff cellars hold millions of bottles at constant temperature.
Fenestrelle
Province: Torino · 1,154 m
84 minutes from Torino. A village below the largest alpine fortress in Europe, three kilometers of stone climbing the ridge above it.
Cella Monte
Province: Alessandria · 268 m
87 minutes from Torino. A 465-person Monferrato Casalese borgo at 268 meters, built entirely from a sandstone found only here, riddled underneath with cellars carved into the same stone.
Cortemilia
Province: Cuneo · 247 m
88 minutes from Torino. An Alta Langa town at 247 meters split by the Bormida, capital of the Tonda Gentile di Langa hazelnut.
Gozzano
Province: Novara · 367 m
88 minutes from Torino. The town at the southern tip of Lake Orta, marked by a basilica and a twelfth-century signaling tower above the water.
Ronco Canavese
Province: Torino · 956 m
88 minutes from Torino. A 271-inhabitant Francoprovenzale village at 956 meters on the Piemonte side of the Gran Paradiso National Park.

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