Trip Guide to Turin, Italy

Cooler in spirit than the city's traditional cafés.

One of Turin's many famous old cafés where you can have a coffee or aperitif in style.

One of Turin's many famous old cafés where you can have a coffee or aperitif in style. Laid out under a vast chandelier, the spread at Caffè San Carlo

One of Turin's many famous old cafés where you can have a coffee or aperitif in style.

The café's eponymous drink has been served at this spot since 1763. The historic beverage has three layers: coffee on the bottom, dark chocolate above

Fashionable Turinese dig into a fabulous bagna cauda or a velvety parmesan-and-zucchini flan under the vaulte

Open weekday mornings and all day Saturday.

Originally commissioned as a synagogue to celebrate the emancipation of non-Catholic religions under Victor Emmanuel II, the Mole eventually grew too

The contemporary art dealer's eponymous gallery.

Houses most of the Savoys' collection of paintings.

There's the new contemporary art _museum, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, a former industrial space that is evolving into Turin's version of the T

The best antiquities collection outside Cairo.

Home of the Shroud of Turin.

There is the museum in Castello di Rivoli, about 45 minutes outside the city, where modern pieces such as Charles Ray's Revolution Counter-Revolution

For a great view of the city, take the old funicular railway to this church.