San Secondo 12 · Torino · Piemonte
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Our curated guide to Torino's finest — three real places in each category, all an easy walk (or short ride) from the apartment.
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San Secondo 12 · Torino · Piemonte
Our curated guide to Torino's finest — three real places in each category, all an easy walk (or short ride) from the apartment.
Explore the guide →"Torino doesn't shout about itself — it rewards the people who actually walk its streets."
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From a 1757 restaurant to a rooftop test track, from Baroque piazze to the world's second-largest Egyptian collection — Torino rewards a few unhurried days.
Luoghi da Visitare
Torino's centro storico rewards walking — Baroque piazze, a landmark tower, and a riverside park all sit within a short stroll of the apartment.
Torino's unmistakable skyline landmark, home to the National Museum of Cinema — take the glass lift to the panoramic terrace for a full view over the city and the Alps beyond.
Torino's grand 17th-century piazza — porticoed arcades, twin Baroque churches, equestrian statue, and two of the city's oldest historic cafés facing each other across the square.
A wide riverside park along the Po, home to the fairy-tale Borgo Medievale — Torino's answer to a proper green escape without ever leaving the city centre.
Dining
From a 1757 dining room favoured by Cavour to the neighbourhood trattoria five minutes from your door — Torino's table is Piedmontese to its core.
Torino's most historic dining room, facing Piazza Carignano — Michelin-starred Piedmontese cuisine under 18th-century mirrors and chandeliers, once the table of Camillo Cavour himself.
A modern Piedmontese bistrot built around small local producers — a daily-changing menu, an all-Italian wine list, and the kind of quietly confident cooking Torino does best.
A San Salvario institution — vitello tonnato, agnolotti and tajarin done the traditional way, in a warm bistrot dining room that fills up with locals every night of the week.
Bar & Caffetterie
Torino invented the aperitivo and perfected the historic café — these three rooms have been pouring for well over a century each.
The tiny café that invented the bicerin — Torino's layered espresso, chocolate and cream drink — poured in the same wood-panelled room since 1763, opposite the Santuario della Consolata.
A miniature Art Nouveau jewel box of a café, said to be the birthplace of the tramezzino — marble, mahogany and brass, unchanged since the early 1900s.
A grand 1873 café inside the elegant Galleria Subalpina — chandeliers, gianduiotto chocolates by the counter, and a menu of historic Torinese pastries and drinking chocolate.
Prodotti Tipici
Torino is Italy's chocolate capital and one of its great market cities — three ways to bring a taste of it home.
One of Torino's most celebrated chocolatiers — exceptional gianduiotti and single-origin bars, made a short walk from the apartment in San Salvario.
The original Eataly, born in Torino inside the former Carpano vermouth plant at Lingotto — an entire hall of Piedmontese wine, cheese, pasta and produce under one roof.
Reputed to be Europe's largest open-air market — fresh produce, cheese, fish and the Saturday Gran Balôn flea market, all in one sprawling, unpretentious square.
Tour & Esperienze
Beyond the piazze — Torino's museums, chocolate and design heritage make for some of Italy's most rewarding half-day experiences.
The second-largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world after Cairo — a genuinely world-class museum, and one of Torino's must-do mornings.
A guided tasting through Torino's chocolate tradition — bicerin, gianduiotto and the historic cafés where they were invented, walkable from the apartment.
The legendary rooftop test track from the old Fiat Lingotto factory — now walkable, with the Pinacoteca Agnelli's art collection floating just below it.
Staying at San Secondo 12? We're happy to help you plan every detail of your time in Torino.