Turin
Visit the city with us
The Crystal Palace Hotel invites you to visit the splendid Savoy city, enjoying the Roman urban planning as well as the Baroque heritage, the history of cinema, music and the automobile. Our hotel is the ideal place to fully experience the Piedmont capital: a few steps from Porta Nuova station, convenient for walking to the historic center, the main squares and the major points of interest in Turin.
Egyptian Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Turin, just over a kilometer from our hotel, is considered one of the most important in the world for the importance of its finds, along with the Louvre in Paris and the British Museum in London, and second only to the one in Cairo.
Palazzo Madama – Civic Museum of Ancient Art
Located in the central Piazza Castello, about 1.5 km from the hotel, Palazzo Madama is a combination of 2000 years of Piedmont history. The building has been modified several times over the centuries, transforming from a Roman gate to a castle, and then again to the residence of the royal Madams. Today, the Palace houses the Civic Museum of Ancient Art of Turin, which boasts an exhibition of important works of art including ancient sculptures, an art gallery and a vast collection of porcelain.
National Cinema Museum of Turin
From the strategic position of our hotel you can easily reach the National Cinema Museum of Turin, located in the Mole Antonelliana, a symbolic monument of the city. Inside the Museum, there is a panoramic elevator with glass walls, which runs in a single open-air span without intermediate floors, from the 10 meters of the starting height to the 85 meters of the “temple”, from which you can admire a splendid panorama of the city of Turin.
GAM Turin
The Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e contemporanea in Turin, just over 10 minutes from our hotel, is one of the most important museums in the city and offers over 45,000 works including paintings, sculptures, installations and photographs. There is also a rich collection of drawings and engravings and one of the most important European collections of films and videos by artists.
Royal Palace, Armoury and Royal Library of Turin
The Royal Palace of Turin, partially visitable only through guided tours, is a magnificent example of seventeenth-century architecture. It is located in Piazza Castello, in the heart of the city’s historic center. Until 1659 it was the residence of the King of Sardinia and then of Vittorio Emanuele II until 1865. In a wing of the Royal Palace, with entrance from Piazza Castello, we find the gallery of the Royal Armoury of Turin which contains one of the richest collections in the world of firearms, bladed weapons, valuable medieval pieces, Napoleonic relics and armor belonging to the Savoy sovereigns.
Museum of the Risorgimento
Just over 1 km from the hotel, the Museum of the Risorgimento, inside Palazzo Carignano, presents a tour divided into 30 rooms, in which visitors can admire 2,400 pieces selected from the over 50,000 preserved.
Automobile Museum Turin
The Automobile Museum in Turin, the only one of its kind in Italy, tells the story of the automobile, its transformation from a means of transport to a cult object, from its origins to the contemporary evolution of creative thought, retracing all the epochal passages of society. The Museum, set up by the Franco-Swiss set designer Francois Confino, is not only aimed at motor enthusiasts, but was conceived in a modern and innovative way to involve a vast and heterogeneous public.
Village, Medieval Fortress and Valentino Park
The Medieval Village of Turin, in the heart of the Valentino Park not far from the hotel, was built in 1884, on the occasion of the Italian General Exhibition of Turin. The complex was designed for educational purposes and was destined for demolition at the end of the event; in reality it was the only pavilion to be preserved and was destined to be a civic museum starting in 1942. The Medieval Village is made up of a series of houses and shops overlooked by the castle; all the facades of the buildings, the decorations of the rooms and the furnishings of the castle are perfect reproductions of 15th century buildings present in Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta.
