Province of Turin
Turin
Centro - Crocetta

Piazza Castello

Piazza Castello is a prominent city square in , . It houses several city landmarks, museums, theaters and cafes.
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Photo: Antonio Tempesta, Public domain.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Museo Egizio and Museo Civico d’Arte Antica.

Museum
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The or Egyptian Museum is an archaeological museum in , Italy, specializing in Egyptian archaeology and anthropology. It houses one of the largest collections of Egyptian antiquities, with more than 30,000 artifacts, and is considered the second most important Egyptological collection in the world, after the . is situated 300 metres southwest of Piazza Castello.

Museum
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The Museo Civico d'Arte Antica is an art museum located in the in , . It has a renowned collection of paintings from the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. It reopened in 2006 after several years of restorations.

Library
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The is a located within the ground floor of the , itself a World Heritage Site in , . The library contains approximately 200,000 print volumes, 4,500 manuscripts, 3,055 drawings, 187 incunabula… is situated 140 metres north of Piazza Castello.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Centro and Roman Quadrilateral.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

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is a neighborhood.

Piazza Castello

Latitude
45.07093° or 45° 4′ 15″ north
Longitude
7.68587° or 7° 41′ 9″ east
Elevation
252 metres (827 feet)
Named after
Palazzo Madama and Casaforte degli Acaja, Turin
Open location code
8FQ93MCP+98
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1008214981
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­square
Geo­Names ID
11127297
Wiki­data ID
Q3902175
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Piazza Castello” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ساحة كاستيلو”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиаца Кастело”
  • Catalan: “Piazza Castello”
  • Chinese: “城堡广场 (都灵)”
  • Chinese: “城堡广场”
  • Dutch: “Piazza Castello”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيازا كاستيلو”
  • French: “place Castello”
  • French: “Place Castello”
  • Italian: “piazza Castello”
  • Italian: “Piazza Castello”
  • Northern Sami: “Piazza Castello”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Piazza Castello”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piazza Castello”
  • Norwegian: “Piazza Castello”
  • Polish: “Piazza Castello”
  • Portuguese: “Piazza Castello”
  • Spanish: “Piazza Castello”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Piazza Castello”. Photo: Antonio Tempesta, Public domain.