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Best views in Turin

6 lookouts and viewpoints in Turin.

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

Mole Antonelliana, Turin
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Best views in Turin

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    Mole Antonelliana

    National Cinema Museum

    The Mole, Turin's landmark building built in 1888, was intended as a synagogue but the size and cost got out of hand and the Jewish community never used it. The 167.5-metre tower is the highest work of masonry in Europe and you can ride a lift to the cupola at the top. Within it, the National Cinema Museum is a vast exhibition space spiralling up five floors. The themes of the floors are the archaeology of cinema, the video camera, a collection of cinema posters, video installations (with side rooms screening clips), and the Great Temple where you recline in comfy red chairs and watch — or is it worship? — Italian film classics projected on giant screens overhead. Artefacts include magic lanterns, optical illusions, photographs, drawings, models, props and costumes, such as the original cape worn by Christopher Reeve in Superman in 1978.

    Wed-Fri, Sun Mon 09:00-19:00, Sat 09:00-22:00Museum €12, lift €9 · Built 1873 · Wheelchair accessible

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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 · 284 m high

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    Bric della Croce

    710 m high

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    Cima Bossola

    507 m high

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    Colline di Torino

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    Piazzale panoramico

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Turin (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Place data from Overture Maps.