Neighbourhoods

Six districts, and how they actually differ

Turin is not one market but six. Here is how each district actually differs — in price, in noise, in light, and in what the winter is like.

The twin baroque church facades of Piazza San Carlo with the equestrian statue of Emanuele Filiberto standing between them

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Centro & Quadrilatero

Baroque facades, eighteen kilometres of arcade, and the shortest commute in the city

The historic centre is the only part of Turin where you can live inside the Savoy city itself — the grid the dukes laid out, the arcades they built so the court could cross town in the rain, the piazzas that still set the price of every other address.

Price per m²: €3,650
Year on year: +2.4%
To Piazza Castello: 3 min

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Turin's rooftops in afternoon light, the Mole Antonelliana rising on the right and the snow-capped Alps behind the city

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Crocetta

The city's steadiest address: wide avenues, private gardens and a view of the Alps down every street

Crocetta is where Turin's professional class settled between the wars and never left. The streets are wider than the centre's, lined with plane trees, and the buildings are the confident 1920s and 1930s blocks that Italians call signorili — solid, generously proportioned, with a porter's lodge and a courtyard garden behind.

Price per m²: €3,900
Year on year: +3.1%
To Piazza Castello: 10 min

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The domed church of the Gran Madre di Dio seen along the tram tracks of the bridge, the wooded hill rising behind it

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Borgo Po & Gran Madre

The far bank: five minutes from Piazza Castello, and the hill starts at your door

Cross the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele I and the city changes register. Borgo Po is a narrow strip of nineteenth-century houses pressed between the river and the hill, with the Gran Madre's dome at its head and the funicular to Superga a short walk upstream.

Price per m²: €3,450
Year on year: +2.7%
To Piazza Castello: 8 min

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Casa Fenoglio-Lafleur, an Art Nouveau corner building with a curved glazed bay and wrought-iron balconies, framed by plane trees

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Cit Turin

Turin's Liberty quarter — the best concentration of Art Nouveau in Italy, at a discount to Crocetta

Cit Turin — 'little Turin' in Piedmontese — grew up around Porta Susa in the years either side of 1900, and the architects of the 1902 Exposition left it the densest run of Liberty buildings in the country. Casa Fenoglio-Lafleur, on the corner of Via Principi d'Acaja, is the one on every postcard.

Price per m²: €2,950
Year on year: +4.2%
To Piazza Castello: 12 min

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Lawns, conifers and a curving gravel path in the Parco del Valentino, with the hill rising behind the trees

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San Salvario & Valentino

The park on one side, the station on the other, and the youngest buyers in the city in between

San Salvario runs from Porta Nuova station down to the Parco del Valentino, and it has changed faster than any district in Turin over the last fifteen years. The stretch nearest the park — Via Ormea, Via Madama Cristina, the streets around the synagogue — is now firmly residential and firmly expensive.

Price per m²: €2,800
Year on year: +5.1%
To Piazza Castello: 9 min

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The city seen from the wooded hill in autumn, the Mole Antonelliana at its centre and the Alps beyond the rooftops

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The Hill & Superga

Twenty minutes from Piazza Castello and eight hundred metres above the fog

The Collina Torinese begins immediately behind the Gran Madre and rises to the Basilica of Superga. It is the only part of the market that sells land rather than square metres: detached villas on terraced plots, most built between 1900 and 1970, many with the city laid out below them and the Alps behind it.

Price per m²: €3,200
Year on year: +1.9%
To Piazza Castello: 20 min

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