Royal Palace of Turin

Royal Palace of Turin tickets: one entry for the whole Musei Reali

A ticket to the Royal Palace is a ticket to the whole of the Musei Reali, valid all day: the royal apartments, the Royal Armoury, the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, the Galleria Sabauda and the archaeology museum. Plan about four hours for the whole route, or about an hour and a quarter for the palace, the Armoury and the chapel alone.

If you come on your own or in a group of up to six, you don’t need to book a time. Under-18s go in free, and so does everyone on the first Sunday of the month.

Two exhibitions this winter come with the ticket: Tiepolo, the 18th-century Venetian painter, in the Galleria Sabauda, from 15 October 2026 to 19 January 2027, and Margherita di Savoia, Italy’s first queen, until 6 January 2027. The exhibition of Jessica Lange, the American actress and photographer, in the Sale Chiablese, from 7 October 2026 to 7 February 2027, has a ticket of its own, €16.

The Royal Palace on the Torino+Piemonte Card and the Turin Royal Pass

Both of Turin’s city passes include the Royal Palace, and with either one there’s nothing to book.

The difference between the two is the rest of your list. Both also include Palazzo Madama and the Reggia di Venaria, but only the Torino+Piemonte Card adds the Egyptian Museum and the Cinema Museum, while the Royal Pass sticks to the Savoy residences. Each card covers one adult and one child under 12, and since under-18s go into the Musei Reali free anyway, here the card is really for the grown-ups. Both are laid out on the Torino+Piemonte Card page.

Guided tours of the Royal Palace of Turin in English or Italian

If you’d like a guide, the tours we sell have the entry included. The first, at €49, is an hour and a half with priority entry and a guide, in English or Italian. Teenagers from 14 to 17 pay €25, children from 6 to 13 pay €5, and you can cancel up to 24 hours before.

The second, at €59, takes two hours in a small group and is in English only. A third option, in Italian only, combines the palace with a walk through Turin and lasts three hours, at €79.90.

Inside the Royal Palace of Turin: the Throne Room, the Armoury and Guarini’s chapel

The royal apartments are where the Savoy lived: the Throne Room, the dining room and the ballroom, and the Scala delle Forbici, the “scissor staircase” by Filippo Juvarra, the Savoy court architect. A lift, with help from the ticket office, takes wheelchair users up to the main floor, but the kitchens and the apartments of the King and Queen Elena can’t be reached in a wheelchair.

The Royal Armoury has been open to the public since 1837, and its long hall is lined with rows of knights in armour on horseback.

The Chapel of the Holy Shroud is the work of Guarino Guarini, a priest and architect from Modena, built between 1668 and 1694. It closed in 1990, a fire swept through it on the night of 11 to 12 April 1997, and it reopened on 27 September 2018. The Shroud itself isn’t here: it has been in the cathedral next door since 1993.

The Galleria Sabauda, the Royal Library and the Royal Gardens

The Galleria Sabauda, the Savoy picture gallery, holds Flemish and Italian masters, Van Eyck, Mantegna, Veronese, Gentileschi, Reni and Van Dyck among them. Carlo Alberto, king of Sardinia, opened it in Palazzo Madama, across the square, in the early 1830s, and since 2014 it has filled the Manica Nuova wing, entered from the gardens with two lifts. The archaeology museum, the Museo di Antichità, dates from 1724 and holds the Marengo Treasure.

The Royal Library belongs to the Musei Reali too, but its great hall keeps short hours of its own, listed below. Leonardo’s self-portrait is in its collection, though it only comes out for occasional exhibitions, and none is listed for 2026.

The Royal Gardens cover 7 hectares, extended at the end of the 17th century by André Le Nôtre, the gardener of Versailles, and entry is free. In winter they close earlier than the museums, at 17:00.

Musei Reali opening hours: Wednesday closing and the free days

Wednesday is the day to avoid: the museums and the gardens both close, while the Library hall keeps short hours of its own.

The free days this winter are the first Sundays of the month, 6 December, 3 January, 7 February and 7 March, and on free days nothing can be booked, so tickets are only handed out at the ticket office.

The Savoy palace, from Christine of France to the Italian state

Christine of France, regent of Savoy, had the palace built from 1645 on the site of the old Bishop’s Palace, and Amedeo di Castellamonte, the court architect, designed the façade between 1646 and 1660. The Savoy lived here as dukes and then as kings, and in 1946 the palace passed to the state and became a museum. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, together with the family’s other residences.

Getting to the Royal Palace of Turin from Porta Nuova and Porta Susa

The main entrance is at Piazzetta Reale 1, on Piazza Castello, and there’s a side entrance at Piazza San Giovanni 2, next to the cathedral. Both lead to the ticket office, the Caffè Reale and the gardens.

From Porta Nuova station it’s 1.4 km on foot, about 20 minutes straight up Via Roma, or tram 4 and buses 11 and 58. From Porta Susa it’s 1.7 km, about 25 minutes along Via Cernaia, or trams and buses 13, 19, 51, 56 and 72. The centre is a ZTL, a restricted traffic zone, so it’s easier on foot or by bus than by car.