Duration: 2 hours

This guided Baroque and Elegant Turin city tour explores Turin as an elegant and cultivated city, shaped by architecture and urban planning from the Baroque period through the early decades of the 20th century, before its transformation into a large industrial and working-class city after World War II.

Turin owes much of its urban identity to the House of Savoy, which transformed the city into a planned capital. Architecture and city planning were used to express power, order, and prestige through monumental palaces, ceremonial squares, and harmonious street layouts.

At the same time, the tour goes beyond the strictly Savoy context and includes the elegant residential districts developed by the emerging bourgeoisie between the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Neighborhoods such as Borgo Nuovo reflect a phase in which Turin was a compact, sophisticated city, characterized by refined palaces, balanced proportions, and a strong sense of urban decorum.

The itinerary also includes examples of Rationalist architecture from the 1930s, highlighting a period when Turin embraced modernity, clarity of form, and functional design, while still maintaining an image of elegance and cultural refinement. During these decades, Turin was not only a political and administrative center, but also a city closely linked to fashion, taste, and modern lifestyle.

This tour offers a coherent reading of Turin as a small yet elegant capital, where different architectural phases coexist within a unified urban framework. It is ideal for visitors who wish to understand the city’s refined identity before its industrial expansion in the second half of the 20th century.

Contact me for this guided tour: mariachiara.ambrosio@gmail.com

You may want to combine this experience with the: Lingotto, FIAT and Turin industrial history =>

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