Monte dei Cappuccini Terrace
A ten-minute walk up a wooded hill on the east bank of the Po delivers you to a stone terrace beside a 16th-century Capuchin church, and the reward is the definitive Turin skyline — the Mole, the Alps, and the entire baroque grid of the city laid out like a map. It costs nothing and the crowds are a fraction of those at the Mole lift.
The View and the Walk Up
Cross the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele I from Piazza Vittorio Veneto and follow the serpentine path through the Parco della Rimembranza, a memorial forest planted with 10,000 trees after World War One. Each tree was dedicated to a fallen Turinese soldier and the plaques are still legible, giving the climb an unexpectedly moving quality.
The terrace itself faces due west, so sunset is the obvious time to come. On days when the foehn wind has scoured the atmosphere clean — typically in autumn and early spring — you can see Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn, and even Mont Blanc simultaneously. Locals call these days 'giorni di foehn' and treat them as minor civic celebrations.
The Mountain Museum Inside
The church complex houses the Museo Nazionale della Montagna (CAI), a serious alpine museum with antique climbing equipment, panoramic dioramas, and a research archive used by mountaineers worldwide. The rooftop terrace of the museum building adds another five metres of elevation and is open to ticket holders.
Temporary exhibitions often cover contemporary mountain photography and environmental change in the Alps — the quality rivals anything in a major city museum.
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