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Crocetta, Turin — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Crocetta is a quarter of Turin's Circoscrizione 1, south of the historic centre, grown around the church of the Beata Vergine delle Grazie that named it.
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Where to stay in Crocetta
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
This is the address Turin considers smart. Crocetta reached its height between the 19th century and the 1930s and has kept the reputation since, so a room here sits among Liberty apartment blocks rather than above a bar, with the pedestrian zone in front of the Politecnico di Torino for a front garden. Porta Nuova is the near station.
Borgo San Secondo, the eastern strip between corso Re Umberto and via Sacchi, runs down toward it, while Santa Teresina at the other end sits against corso Mediterraneo and the Spina Centrale. The old borgo keeps its market.
About Crocetta
What are the main landmarks in Crocetta?
The Politecnico stands on a parade ground. The Piazza d'Armi drilled troops here from 1872, and when it went in 1909 the Stadium arena took the site for the international exhibition of 1911, seating a crowd of seventy thousand before being pulled down in 1947 for the Politecnico di Torino built between 1948 and 1958. One monument is hard to miss.
The column to Vittorio Emanuele II at the corner of corso Galileo Ferraris and corso Vittorio Emanuele II stands thirty-nine metres high, raised in 1899 by Umberto I with the first king of Italy turning his back on France. Everything else is domestic architecture. Villa Frassati on corso Trento is Giuseppe Momo's work of 1916, Villa Verrua Rignon at the southeastern corner keeps its walled park from the early 18th century, and Casa Maffei and Casa Besozzi on corso Montevecchio are the Liberty examples people come for, with the Ospedale Mauriziano of 1885 by Giovanni Spantigati and Ambrogio Perincioli anchoring corso Turati.
What is the history of Crocetta?
A small cross gave the quarter its name. The parish was run for a long stretch by the Trinitarian Fathers, whose emblem was a little red and blue cross on white, and the borgo that grew around their church of the Beata Vergine delle Grazie took the nickname Crocetta from it. That church came in two versions.
The first dates from about 1618 and the second from 1889, and the parish had been set up in the Tauley lands specifically to break away from the Lingotto parish of 1686. Borgo San Secondo is younger. It formed around 1850 when the military moved the Piazza d'Armi west of corso Re Umberto, and its church on via San Secondo was built in 1867 at the wish of Giovanni Bosco to a design by Luigi Formento, then consecrated in 1882.
Santa Teresina came last of the three. Its people worked for the liqueur firm Martini & Rossi around the turn of the century, and the parish church of 1934 was rebuilt to a 1957 design with a roof of triangular sections that still surprises people walking up from corso Mediterraneo.
Where is Crocetta?
Crocetta runs south from corso Vittorio Emanuele II to corso Bramante, with the railway and San Salvario on its east side and corso Castelfidardo, corso Mediterraneo and largo Orbassano marking the west toward Cenisia and Borgo San Paolo.
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Updated September 2026