Basilica of Superga

Superga on the Torino+Piemonte Card and the Turin Royal Pass

With the Torino+Piemonte Card or the Turin Royal Pass, the three paid visits at Superga, the royal tombs, the royal apartment and the climb up the dome, are all included. You show the card at the ticket office, with nothing to book ahead.

Basilica of Superga tickets: what’s free and what you pay

Entry to the basilica itself is free, and so is the Chapel of the Madonna delle Grazie, known as the Chapel of the Vow. Without a card, the tombs, the apartment and the dome each have a ticket of their own.

The tombs and the apartment can only be seen on a guided visit in Italian, card or no card, which lasts 45 minutes, and the apartment has just two visits a day, each with only a few places. If the apartment is the one you’re after, ask at the ticket office for the times as soon as you arrive and plan the rest of the day around them. Visits in English, French, German or Spanish are for groups only, arranged ahead at extra cost.

The dome depends on the weather: it closes in bad weather or strong wind and whenever it’s above 32 °C, and children under 6 can’t go up. Dogs aren’t allowed in the basilica or the museum.

Inside the Basilica of Superga: Juvarra’s dome and the Savoy tombs

Filippo Juvarra, the Savoy court architect, finished the dome in 1726, with nods to St Peter’s in Rome, and gave the front a pediment like the Pantheon’s. The climb takes you out onto a balcony that looks over Turin to the Alps.

Beneath the church lie the tombs of the House of Savoy, among them that of King Carlo Alberto, which you see on the guided visit.

At the back of the basilica is the wall where, in 1949, the plane carrying the Grande Torino, the city’s Torino football team, crashed.

Up to Superga on the rack railway from Sassi

The way up from the city is the rack railway from Sassi, which climbs 3.1 km from 225 to 650 metres. It runs with a locomotive and up to two carriages, 210 passengers in all. GTT, Turin’s transport company, calls it the only line of its kind in Italy; it opened in 1884 as a cable line on the Agudio system and became a rack railway in 1934.

On weekdays a single costs €4 and a return €6, at weekends and on holidays €6 and €9, and with the Torino+Piemonte Card a return is €4 on any day. One child under 6 travels free with each paying adult.

In summer, on weekdays, the trains went up every hour from 10:00 to 18:00 and down from 10:30 to 18:30; for the winter timetable, call GTT on 011 8997505 before you go. GTT can also arrange the trip for a wheelchair user travelling with two companions.

On Sundays and holidays there’s also the Superga Express, an experimental bus that since May 2026 has run from Piazza Vittorio Veneto by way of Ricasoli and Sassi to the top, about every 40 minutes from 9:30 to 20:20; on those days the 79/ doesn’t run. You can walk up as well, on the paths over the hill.

Superga’s winter hours, from 2 November to the end of February

From 2 November 2026 to 28 February 2027 the basilica, the tombs, the apartment and the dome close from 13:30 to 14:30 on weekdays and stay open straight through at weekends.

The vow of 1706 and the church Juvarra built on the hill

On 2 September 1706, with Turin besieged by French and Spanish troops, Duke Victor Amadeus II and his cousin Prince Eugene of Savoy, who led the Austrian army coming to relieve the city, climbed this hill to look down on the city, and the duke vowed to build a church to the Virgin if he won. The battle of 7 September gave him his victory.

Filippo Juvarra built the basilica between 1717 and 1731, and it was consecrated on 1 November 1731.