Reggia di Venaria

Reggia di Venaria tickets: All in a Palace on the card, a combo or a guided tour

What you see at Venaria depends on the ticket. The basic one, called Reggia, covers the piano nobile, the main floor of state rooms, and the gardens; All in a Palace adds the exhibitions. The Torino+Piemonte Card and the Turin Royal Pass both give you All in a Palace, which you reserve ahead.

This winter’s exhibition is Atelier dei Moderni, with works by Matisse, Braque, Picasso and Bacon, from 2 October 2026 to 14 February 2027, and only All in a Palace includes it.

The Reggia di Venaria on Turin’s city passes

Both passes include the All in a Palace ticket and the Castello della Mandria, a separate visit with its own ticket and hours, and with either one you reserve ahead.

Neither card covers a guided tour, the audio guide or the Freccia di Diana, the little train that tours the gardens in 25 minutes. The train is €5, or €4 if you hold an All in a Palace ticket, and you can only buy it in the Lower Park. What else each card includes is on the Torino+Piemonte Card page.

Reggia di Venaria with the hop-on hop-off bus or a guided tour

Without a card, our combo, from €48, gives you skip-the-line entry to the palace, the Scuderie Juvarriane, which are Juvarra’s stables, and the gardens, plus 24 or 48 hours on all three lines of the City Sightseeing hop-on hop-off bus, with audio commentary on board. Don’t count on the bus to take you out to Venaria, though: the train or the Venaria Express, below, will. The combo leaves out the exhibition in the Scuderie, the audio guide, a guided tour and the Castello della Mandria, and you can cancel up to 72 hours before the day.

The guided tour, three hours in a small group with skip-the-line entry, is in Italian only and costs €79.90 for anyone 13 or over. It takes in the Salone di Diana, the Galleria Grande, the church of Sant’Uberto and the Bucentaur. Children from 4 to 12 have their own price, under-4s go free, and you can cancel up to 24 hours ahead.

Getting to the Reggia di Venaria from Turin by train or bus

The palace is in Venaria Reale, 10 km from Turin, and on busy days the palace itself suggests the train. The SFM4, SFM6 and SFM7 suburban lines run from Porta Susa to the Reggia di Venaria stop on Viale Roma, and from there it’s about 500 metres on foot to the ticket office.

The Venaria Express, run by GTT, the Turin transport company, goes from Tuesday to Sunday and on holidays. At weekends and on holidays the fare is €7 a person, or €4 return with the Torino+Piemonte Card, and for now it stops only at the Borgo Antico, the old village, before going on to the Mandria. City buses 11, VE1 and 72 also run to Venaria, and if you drive, car parks A and B charge €1.50 an hour between 6:30 and 23:00.

Reggia di Venaria opening hours: the winter timetable from 7 November

From 7 November 2026 the palace switches to its winter hours, 9:30 to 17:00 from Tuesday to Sunday, and it stays closed on Mondays unless they’re public holidays. It gives no official visiting time, and the Christmas and New Year dates haven’t been published yet.

The Galleria Grande and the Bucentaur at the Reggia di Venaria

Filippo Juvarra’s Galleria Grande, the hall in the photo, is 80 metres long, 12 wide and 15 high at the centre, lit by 44 tall windows with 22 round ones above them.

Juvarra also built the church of Sant’Uberto and the stables, the Scuderie Juvarriane. The stables now hold the Bucentaur of the Savoy, a royal barge that Victor Amadeus II, the first Savoy duke to become a king, commissioned and had built in Venice between 1729 and 1731; the palace calls it the only one of its kind.

The gardens of Venaria, from the Fountain of the Stag to Penone

The gardens owe their shape to the architect Michelangelo Garove, who redesigned them in 1699 in the manner of Versailles. Their landmarks are the Fontana del Cervo, the Fountain of the Stag, and the Giardino delle Sculture Fluide, 14 works by the artist Giuseppe Penone. There’s also a kitchen garden of 10 hectares, which the palace says is the largest in Italy.

The Reggia di Venaria’s past: a hunting palace for the Savoy, a barracks under Napoleon

In 1658 and 1659 Duke Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy asked his court architect, Amedeo di Castellamonte, for a palace for pleasure and hunting, meant as the jewel in the “crown of delights”, the ring of Savoy residences around Turin. The name comes from the Latin venatio regia, the royal hunt.

The French destroyed it in 1693, and the rebuilding gave it what you see today: Garove’s gardens and, from 1716, Juvarra’s Galleria Grande, Sant’Uberto, the Citroniera orangery and the stables. Under Napoleon, in 1796 to 1798, the palace became a barracks, the army kept it after that, and in the 20th century it was looted.

The restoration of 1999 to 2007, which the palace calls the largest conservation project for a cultural site in Europe, brought back 100,000 square metres of building, 9,500 of stucco and 1,000 of frescoes. The Reggia has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, with the other Savoy residences.