Turin — Turin Map Poster & Print

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Turin Map Poster & Print

Few Italian cities show their origins as plainly as Turin. The centre still follows the right-angled plan of the Roman camp of Augusta Taurinorum. Later dukes and kings extended that order outward, block by block, with baroque squares and straight arcaded streets. From above, the result is one of the most regular street patterns in Europe: a dense lattice that only softens where it meets the river and the slopes beyond.

The Po forms the eastern edge of the historic city. It passes the Parco del Valentino and runs under a series of bridges before the ground climbs into the wooded hill. The Dora Riparia cuts across the northern districts, and wide tree-lined corsi divide the grid into large rectangles. On a Turin map poster these lines stack into a calm, almost architectural composition, with dark streets on light ground and the river as a single clean curve.

Turin was the first capital of unified Italy in 1861. Its industrial century left marks that still show on the map, from the long former Fiat works at Lingotto in the south to the rail corridors that feed Porta Nuova and Porta Susa. The Mole Antonelliana, now home to the national cinema museum, stands a few blocks from the Po. The Basilica of Superga looks down on the city from the hill.