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Regio Parco, Turin — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Regio Parco is a quarter of Turin's Circoscrizione 6, northeast of the city near where the Stura di Lanzo joins the Po, named for a ducal hunting park.
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Where to stay in Regio Parco
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
The name is grander than the place. Regio Parco is a working quarter of blocks and social housing, and it takes its name from a pleasure park that no longer exists, which is the first thing to know before arriving. Rivers set two of its edges.
Via Botticelli and the Stura di Lanzo close it on the north and the Po on the east, at the point where the two waters meet. One long street runs the whole length.
About Regio Parco
What are the main landmarks in Regio Parco?
Corso Regio Parco is the spine. It runs 3.4 km through the entire quarter from the Rondò Rivella to Piazza Sofia and forms the northern boundary of the Cimitero monumentale di Torino along the way. A castle stood where the flats are.
Viboccone, also called the Palazzo di Delizie, was raised about 1530 by the Milanese architect Croce, its interior painted by the Casale artist Guglielmo Caccia known as il Moncalvo, ringed by stairways, porticoes and columns and topped by a great dome. Only the name is left. The French destroyed the castle in 1706 during the siege of Turin, when it was already falling into ruin.
What is the history of Regio Parco?
A duke wanted a park. About the end of 1568 Emanuele Filiberto set out to extend his residences north beyond the walls and bought eighty-one giornate of wooded land from several landowners, in the area between where the Dora and the Stura di Lanzo join the Po, and had it turned into a park. Its first name was Viboccone.
That referred to the existing and populous Vicus bocconis, on which the logistical and ecological services of the Regio Parco estate leaned. A castle followed. The Palazzo di Delizie went up about 1530 to a design by the Milanese architect Croce, with frescoes by Guglielmo Caccia, il Moncalvo, and a great dome over stairways, porticoes and columns.
War ended it in 1706. French forces destroyed the castle during the siege of Turin that year, by which time it was already going progressively to ruin, though the Turin Regio Parco had mattered considerably in the development of pleasure residences in Italy. The name outlived the building.
Regio Parco names the whole quarter now and the 3.4 km corso that crosses it.
Where is Regio Parco?
Regio Parco lies northeast of Turin in the Circoscrizione 6, bounded north by via Botticelli and the Stura di Lanzo and east by the Po, near the confluence of the two rivers.
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Updated September 2026