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Free things to do in Turin

8 places in Turin with free entry or no charge, based on guide listings and map data.

Ranked with the travel guide's picks and well-known places first.

Free things to do in Turin

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    Basilica di Maria Ausiliatrice

    Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians

    Palladian church built 1865-68, originally as part of a care facility for poor and delinquent boys founded by Don Bosco (1815-88). He himself is buried here, along with 6000 bits and pieces of saints.

    Mon-Sat 07:00-19:00, Sun 07:00-22:00Free

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    Basilica of Superga

    This hilltop basilica was built in thanksgiving for the 1706 defeat of the French at Turin. Often incorrectly called a cathedral, it's in sort-of-classical-with-baroque style, and houses the tombs of many nobles of the House of Savoy. Superga hill derives its name from Serrapergia meaning "mountain between the hills". Nearby is a monument to the air crash of 1949, which wiped out Torino FC. Get here by car, bus, rack-railway, or the hiking trails, but the approach road is narrow with no sidewalk so it is not safe for walking.

    Daily 10:00-13:00, 14:30-17:00Free

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    Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist

    Duomo; Cattedrale di San Giovanni Battista

    Large elegant cathedral dating from late 15th century, enlarged in the 17th to create the Chapel for the Shroud of Turin. However this chapel (rebuilt after a fire in 1997) is nowadays accessed as part of a tour of Palazzo Reale and can't be seen from the Cathedral; visit the nearby Sindone Museum to see a copy of the Shroud.

    Daily 09:00-13:00 & 15:00-19:00Free

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    Mausoleo della Bela Rosin

    Pantheon di Mirafiori

    Rosa Vercellana (1833-1885) became the mistress of the future Victor Emmanuel II and had two children by him before she was 16. She was made a countess when his legitimate wife and queen died in 1855, and in 1869 when the king thought he himself might die, he hurriedly married Rosa. It was a morganatic marriage, so it conferred no crown or right of succession on her or her children. He survived to do the same thing over in 1877, likewise morganatic, then died. His Savoy dynasty wouldn't let this upstart floozie be buried next to him, so here lies La Bela. The neoclassical building was handed over to the city in 1970 but vandalised and fell derelict; it was restored in 2005 and now houses a public library.

    Mon Thu 09:00-13:00, Wed 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00, Sun 14:00-17:00Free

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    Santuario della Consolata

    Church of the Virgin of the Consolation

    A church and Benedictine monastery may have stood here since the 5th century. Most of it is from 1680 to 1740, an over-the-top profusion of baroque.

    Mon-Fri 08:00-19:30, Sat 07:30-19:00, Sun 07:30–20:30Free

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    Santa Maria di Monte dei Cappuccini

    A late-Renaissance-style church on a hill overlooking the River Po. It was built 1583 to 1656 for the Capuchin Friars; the delay was through plague and the occasional war. A miracle supposedly occurred in 1640 during the French assault on Turin, when troops seizing the church were repulsed by a sheet of holy flame from the tabernacle. They slew all the defenders anyhow, no doubt in a faith-affirming sort of way. Cannonballs stuck in the walls recall the assaults of 1706 and 1799.

    Daily 07:30-19:30Free

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    Chiesa Maria Santissima Del Carmelo

    This church was built in the 1730s for a Carmelite convent.

    Mon-Sat 08:30-13:00, 15:00-19:00, Sun 08:30-13:30Free

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    Parrocchia Sacro Cuore di Maria

    Sacred Heart

    Neo-gothic church of 1890.

    Daily 06:30-12:00, 15:30-18:30Free

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Turin (CC BY-SA 4.0).