Villa della Regina

Villa della Regina tickets: the villa with its gardens, or the gardens alone

The villa has two tickets: €10 for the villa and its gardens, or €5 for the gardens alone. Visitors from 18 to 25 pay €2, and under-18s go in free.

Tickets come from the villa itself, and the day of the week decides how. From Wednesday to Sunday and on holidays you can buy them online at museiitaliani.it or in the Musei Italiani app, while on Tuesdays they’re sold only at the ticket office, which takes cash and cards.

On an ordinary day there’s no need to book. The first Sunday of the month is the exception: entry is free that day, everyone has to book online, and the villa doesn’t promise to let in anyone who turns up without a booking. On public holidays booking is recommended. Whichever day you come, there’s no audio guide, no cloakroom and no shop, so bring only what you’re happy to carry round.

Villa della Regina with the Torino+Piemonte Card or the Royal Pass

The Torino+Piemonte Card includes the villa, and so does the Turin Royal Pass: you show the card at the ticket office and get your ticket there.

Villa della Regina opening hours and the free first Sundays

The villa and its gardens open from Tuesday to Sunday and on public holidays, from 9:30 to 18:00, and Monday is the closing day. The last visitors go in at 17:00. We haven’t checked the hours for Christmas and New Year.

Inside Villa della Regina: the Salone d’Onore, the Chinese cabinets and the vineyard

The rooms you come for are on the piano nobile, the main floor. The Salone d’Onore, the great hall, has decoration that draws on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and around it are cabinets painted in the Chinese taste and Baroque rooms from Anne Marie d’Orléans’s time.

Much of the furniture was lost over the years: some was taken to Rome, some was stolen and some was destroyed by bombing in the Second World War. Two things are new this autumn. A permanent room, A scuola a Villa della Regina, opened in October 2026 and tells the story of the school that later occupied the villa, and until 22 November the villa’s QU.EEN programme has the exhibitions Anatomie della metamorfosi, with work by Frédérique Nalbandian and Fabio Viale.

Outside, the gardens climb the hill in terraces, with the Pavilion of the Solinghi among them, and the Queen’s vineyard has stood in the same place since the 17th century. Its grapes make a red, the Freisa di Chieri DOC Villa della Regina.

Anne Marie d’Orléans, the cardinal and how the villa got its name

Ascanio Vitozzi designed the villa in 1615 for Prince-Cardinal Maurice of Savoy, and Carlo and Amedeo di Castellamonte carried on the work. It was known then as the Vigna di Madama.

It became the Villa della Regina, the Queen’s Villa, after 1720, when Anne Marie d’Orléans, queen of Sicily and then of Sardinia, used it, and Filippo Juvarra rebuilt the house and the gardens. In 1868 Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of Italy, gave it to the Institute for the Daughters of Italian Soldiers, whose school is the subject of the new room. The state took it over in 1994, three years before the villa became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Getting to Villa della Regina, on the hill across the Po

The villa is at Strada Santa Margherita 79, in Borgo Po, on the hillside east of the river. For the villa, the stop is Villa Regina Ovest, on bus lines 53, 56 and 66; lines 13 and 73 end at the Gran Madre, and the Star2 stops at Vittorio Veneto. If you drive, there’s paid parking in Piazza Vittorio Veneto. Disabled visitors can ask at the gatehouse intercom for a parking space at the villa. Inside, they reach the main floor by a separate route and a lift, always with a member of staff, and in the gardens they need someone with them. Tactile maps are available on request.