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10 comuni an hour from Turin in any direction

Comuni whose nearest major city is Turin, within a 60 minute drive of it. 10 towns shown, nearest first.

Turin keeps its surroundings the way a private person keeps friends: close, loyal, and unadvertised. These comuni all sit within an hour of the city, their nearest major neighbor.

The spread runs from the Canavese castles to the Susa valley. Ordered by drive time, nearest first, for building day trips that leave after coffee and return before the aperitivo.

  1. 1.Venaria Reale28 min from TurinTorino · PiedmontA Savoy town on the edge of Torino, built around the Reggia di Venaria, a UNESCO baroque palace with sixty hectares of gardens.
  2. 2.Avigliana36 min from TurinTorino · PiedmontA medieval Savoy town at 383 meters at the mouth of the Susa Valley, between two glacial lakes and the Sacra di San Michele.
  3. 3.Agliè45 min from TurinTorino · PiedmontA Canavese borgo at 330 meters whose Castello Ducale, a UNESCO Savoy residence since 1997, has been held by the d'Agliè since 1259.
  4. 4.Racconigi49 min from TurinCuneo · PiedmontA Po-plain town south of Torino built around the UNESCO Castello Reale, the Carignano Savoy residence whose park holds Italy's largest white-stork colony.
  5. 5.Susa53 min from TurinTorino · PiedmontThe Roman gateway to the Cottian Alps at 503 meters, capital of the Alpes Cottiae and seat of the Cozii under Augustus and Cottius.

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  1. 6.Bra54 min from TurinCuneo · PiedmontA Roero town at 290 meters where Carlo Petrini founded Slow Food in 1986 and the world's first gastronomic university now teaches food systems.
  2. 7.Ivrea56 min from TurinTorino · PiedmontRoman Eporedia on the Dora Baltea, Olivetti's twentieth-century industrial city, UNESCO since 2018, where every February three hundred tons of oranges are thrown.
  3. 8.Cocconato57 min from TurinAsti · PiedmontA Monferrato ridge town at 491 meters with a microclimate mild enough to grow palms and olives this far north.
  4. 9.Alba58 min from TurinCuneo · PiedmontThe Langhe capital at 172 meters on the Tanaro, world reference for white truffle and Nebbiolo, headquarters of Ferrero.
  5. 10.La Morra59 min from TurinCuneo · PiedmontThe hilltop above the Barolo zone at 513 meters, more Nebbiolo acreage than any other commune and 62 wineries inside its perimeter.

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