Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi

Stupinigi tickets: our guided tour, or a city pass at the desk

The tour we sell lasts an hour and a half with a professional guide, in a semi-private group, and the entry ticket is part of it. It costs €59 from the age of 13 and €29.90 for children from 6 to 12, under-6s go free, and you can cancel up to 24 hours before your time. The listing mentions the Salone Centrale and the royal apartments, but not the guide’s language.

The Palazzina di Stupinigi on the Torino+Piemonte Card and the Royal Pass

With the Torino+Piemonte Card or the Turin Royal Pass the lodge is included, but there’s nothing to book online: you show the card at the ticket office and they hand you a ticket, even if you bought the card online. Between 12:00 and 13:00 the ticket office may stop selling, so it’s better not to arrive then.

Neither pass covers a guided tour, and the historic garden has a ticket of its own: €5, or €3 if you have a ticket for the lodge.

Bus 41 and the 282: getting to Stupinigi from Turin

Stupinigi is in Nichelino, 10 km from the centre of Turin. From Porta Nuova station the 282, run by Arriva and SADEM, goes out to Stupinigi, and from Lingotto station bus 41 reaches the Stupinigi stop in about 20 minutes. You can join the 41 from the centre too, by taking bus 18 and changing to the 41 at Passo Buole, or tram 4 to Piazzale Caio Mario and changing there.

At weekends the 1N shuttle also comes from Nichelino. By car you arrive along Viale Torino, and parking in front of the lodge is free.

Inside the hunting lodge: the stag, the Salone Centrale and the royal apartments

The lodge has 137 rooms and 17 galleries, in a park of 150,000 square metres. The visit starts in Juvarra’s stables, the Scuderia, with the Gallery of Portraits and the stag that once stood on the dome, made in bronze, copper and gold by Francesco Ladatte in 1766. The one you see outside today is a modern copy, and the original has been indoors since 1992.

From there the route passes through the library to the Salone Centrale, the oval hall two storeys high under the dome. The brothers Giuseppe and Domenico Valeriani painted the Triumph of Diana, the goddess of the hunt, on its ceiling between 1731 and 1733, and 36 wall lights shaped like stags’ heads ring the room.

After the hall come the apartments of the King and the Queen, the chapel of Sant’Uberto and the Appartamento di Levante, the east apartment. The furniture includes pieces by Pietro Piffetti and Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo, and one room is the cabinet of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon’s sister.

Napoleon’s gala carriage, a berlin of 1805, came back to the lodge in 2024, but an October notice said it was closed to visitors for the time being, so ask at the ticket office whether you can see it. Photos for your own use are fine, without flash. There’s a lift for visitors with reduced mobility, though the outdoor paths are gravel; staff are on hand to help, and the lodge asks you to let it know you’re coming.

Stupinigi opening hours and the garden open through November

From Tuesday to Friday the lodge closes at 17:30, and at weekends and on holidays at 18:30, with the last entry half an hour before; on Mondays it’s shut. Around the holidays the hours change on a few days.

The historic garden normally closes from 1 November to the end of February, but this year it’s staying open through November, from Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 16:30 with the last entry at 16:00, unless the weather gets worse.

Juvarra’s lodge for the royal hunt, its guests and two royal weddings

Juvarra began the lodge in 1729 for King Victor Amadeus II, and the first hunt was held there in 1731. Through the 18th century architects such as Prunotto and Alfieri extended it, and the plan is a St Andrew’s cross, an X around the oval hall.

The lodge put up royal guests: Tsar Paul I of Russia, Ferdinand I of Bourbon, Napoleon and his sister Pauline, and Queen Margherita. It also saw two royal weddings, Maria Teresa of Savoy’s to the Count of Artois, later King Charles X of France, and Victor Emmanuel II’s to Maria Adelaide of Habsburg.

In the 1800s the park kept a menagerie, with ostriches and kangaroos as well as Fritz the elephant. In 1919 the lodge’s rooms took in a Museum of Furniture.