Italy · Piemonte · Turin
Vanchiglia, Turin — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Turin district of Vanchiglia gathers Santa Giulia, the Museo Lavazza and a run of former works around the Ex Lanificio Colongo.
About Vanchiglia
Where to stay in Vanchiglia
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Rooms in Vanchiglia sit among ordinary streets rather than around a sight. The Museo Lavazza gives the district an anchor that most residential quarters of Turin do without, and a guest booking here trades the sights for streets where daily life carries on regardless of visitors. Santa Giulia marks the older core.
Blocks running toward the Ex Lanificio Colongo stay quieter still, the former mill buildings having gone over to other uses.
About Vanchiglia
What are the main landmarks in Vanchiglia?
Museums here come out of industry. The Museo Lavazza, the Archivio storico e museo Italgas and the ASTUT - Archivio scientifico e tecnologico each keep the record of a trade rather than a collection of art, and the EcoMuseo Nesta adds a smaller holding to the same run. Churches hold the other half.
Santa Giulia, Santissimo Nome di Gesù and the Santo Sepolcro di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo carry the dedications, while the Ex Lanificio Colongo stands as the plainest reminder that mills once worked these blocks.
What is the history of Vanchiglia?
Borgo Vanchiglia is the older name. What the district records of its past is largely industrial: the Ex Lanificio Colongo names a mill that has stopped working, and the Archivio storico e museo Italgas and the ASTUT - Archivio scientifico e tecnologico keep the papers and instruments of trades that shaped this part of Turin. Older dedications sit alongside.
Santa Giulia, Santissimo Nome di Gesù and the Santo Sepolcro di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo stand among the same blocks, and the Museo Lavazza keeps a company's own record close to them.
Where is Vanchiglia?
Vanchiglia covers a stretch of Turin in Piemonte marked by parish churches and former works, from Santa Giulia to the Ex Lanificio Colongo.
Good for
More areas in Turin
Updated August 2026