Royal Palace of Turin
The palace of the House of Savoy, built in the 16th century and remodelled in the 17th, with later designs by the Baroque architect Filippo Juvarra. The complex takes in the Palazzo Chiablese and the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, built to hold the Shroud of Turin.
- Where
- Turin, Piedmont, Italy
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 45.0728, 7.6863
Get the Royal Palace of Turin stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Royal Palace of Turin. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Piedmont volume with your photos and a note.
Near Royal Palace of Turin
Museo Egizio 0.5 km
Founded in 1824 by King Charles Felix, the world's oldest museum devoted entirely to ancient Egypt. It holds more than 40,000 objects and is regarded as the second most important Egyptian collection in the world, after the one in Cairo.
Mole Antonelliana 0.7 km
Turin's landmark tower, named after its architect Alessandro Antonelli; a mole in Italian is a building of monumental size. Begun as a synagogue, it now houses the National Museum of Cinema, with a glass lift rising through the middle to a terrace near the top.
Gran Paradiso National Park 56 km
A national park in the Graian Alps, spread across the Aosta Valley and Piedmont around the Gran Paradiso mountain. It began as a royal hunting ground of King Victor Emmanuel II, protected to save the Alpine ibex from poachers, and ibex still graze its high slopes.
Vanoise National Park 73 km
France's first national park, created in 1963 between the Tarentaise and Maurienne valleys in the Alps. Its high country of glaciers and peaks shelters ibex and chamois, and footpaths link mountain refuges across the massif.
Klein Matterhorn 96 km
A peak of the Breithorn massif above Zermatt, at 3,883 metres the highest place in Europe that can be reached by cable car. Its viewing platform looks over the Breithorn Plateau glacier toward Italy, and the Matterhorn rises close by.
Great St Bernard Hospice 97 km
A hospice and hostel for travellers on the Great St Bernard Pass, named after its founder Bernard of Menthon and kept by a community of canons regular ever since. It is the home of the St Bernard dogs, bred here to help find travellers lost in the snow.
Skyway Monte Bianco 100 km
A cable car that climbs from Entrèves, near Courmayeur, to Pointe Helbronner on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif. Opened in 2015, its cabins turn slowly as they rise, giving a full circle of glaciers and peaks on the way up.
Matterhorn 100 km
A near-symmetrical pyramid of rock on the Swiss and Italian border, rising to 4,478 metres above Zermatt. Often called the mountain of mountains, it has become the emblem of the Alps and is said to be the most photographed peak in the world.
Questions
Where is Royal Palace of Turin?
Royal Palace of Turin is in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Museo Egizio (0.5 km), Mole Antonelliana (0.7 km), Gran Paradiso National Park (56 km).
How do I get the Royal Palace of Turin stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Royal Palace of Turin and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Piedmont volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Royal Palace of Turin before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Piedmont volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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