Castello di Rivoli

Castello di Rivoli tickets: the exhibition, plus a supplement for the castle

Tickets at Rivoli are sold by exhibition. From 29 October 2026 to 4 April 2027 that means Marisa Merz: The Dance of the Hours, in the Manica Lunga, at €10 (€8 reduced). The other galleries in the castle building and the collection need a supplement of €5 (€2 reduced), so the exhibition and the castle together come to €15.

The reduced prices are for visitors from 11 to 26, teachers, over-65s and groups of 10 or more, among others, and under-11s go in free. You can buy at the castle or online, through WEBtic, and you don’t need to book. The Villa Cerruti has a ticket of its own, cheaper if you also hold a castle ticket.

Castello di Rivoli on the Torino+Piemonte Card and the Royal Pass

Both of Turin’s passes include the entry. The castle is one of the 16 Savoy residences on the Turin Royal Pass, and the Torino+Piemonte Card counts it among its castles and residences outside the city. The castle doesn’t say whether the €5 supplement for the castle building is part of that, so ask at the desk when you show your card.

Getting to the Castello di Rivoli from Turin

The castle stands on Piazza Mafalda di Savoia in Rivoli, outside Turin, and getting there takes a metro, a bus and a shuttle. The metro and the bus alone take about 40 minutes.

On Saturdays there’s a route with fewer changes: from 11:00 to 18:00 a shuttle runs every hour between Alpignano station and the castle, timed with the trains from Turin. By car, leave the motorway at the exit marked Rivoli, not Rivoli-Rosta.

The Manica Lunga, the collection and the Villa Cerruti at Rivoli

The museum has three buildings: the castle itself, the Manica Lunga and the Villa Cerruti. The Manica Lunga, the “long sleeve”, is the wing the Castellamonte architects built for the Savoy picture gallery, finished by 1644, and its third floor holds the Marisa Merz exhibition, curated by the museum’s director, Francesco Manacorda, with Marianna Vecellio. It’s told in three acts: Rivoli has one, and the other two are in Turin, at the Fondazione Merz and at the GAM, the city’s modern art gallery.

The castle building holds the permanent collection: contemporary art from the mid-1960s on, including Arte Povera (“poor art”). In 2021 the artist Giuseppe Penone gave it more than 200 works on paper.

The Villa Cerruti is a house-museum, with about a thousand works from the Cerruti Collection, from the Middle Ages to the present day, among them Renoir, Modigliani, Klee and Warhol. The museum announced in 2017 that it was acquiring the collection, and the villa opens only at weekends.

Castello di Rivoli opening hours

From Savoy castle to Italy’s first museum of contemporary art

The House of Savoy held Rivoli from the 11th century, and the castle is first recorded in 1159. Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy lived here after 1559, and Carlo Emanuele I was born here in 1562. In 1716 Filippo Juvarra, the architect of Superga and Stupinigi, took over the rebuilding, and the grand palace he planned was never completed.

From 1863 the castle served as a barracks, and the Second World War left it badly damaged. Restoration began in 1979, and in 1984 it reopened as a museum of contemporary art, the first in Italy. In 1997 UNESCO added it to its World Heritage list, among the residences of the House of Savoy.