Guided walking tour of the elegant center of Turin, starting from Piazza Castello, admiring the most important buildings: Palazzo Madama, the Church of San Lorenzo, the Royal Palace and its armory, the Cathedral and the Roman Quadrilateral, passing under the elegant arcades full of antique shops and fine cafes. The tour then continues in the Egyptian Museum, the second largest in the world after Cairo's in Egypt for its outstanding collection of mummies, statues, artifacts and exhibits.
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Guided walking tour of the elegant center of Turin, starting from Piazza Castello, admiring the most important buildings: Palazzo Madama, the Church of San Lorenzo, the Royal Palace and its armory, the Cathedral and the Roman Quadrilateral, passing under the elegant arcades full of antique shops and fine cafes. The tour then continues in the Egyptian Museum, the second largest in the world after Cairo's in Egypt for its outstanding collection of mummies, statues, artifacts and exhibits.
Duration: 3 hours
Opening hours: from Friday to Sunday at 9:30am.
Closed on December 25.
Meeting point: the guide will meet you infront of the Teatro Regio, 15 minutes before the confirmed time.
Visits for groups up to 25 people
Available in English and Italian.
It is recommended to wear comfortable shoes.
Cancellation policy:
The tour can be cancelled and totally refunded if the request is made with 3 working days of advance
Visit to the historic center of Turin and the Egyptian Museum
Visit the historic center of Turin while strolling through its majestic plazas: starting from Piazza Castello, the ancient seat of royal power, you will walk through the sumptuous Galleria Subalpina and reach two locations closely associated with the Italian Risorgimento: Piazza Carlo Alberto and Piazza Carignano, just next to the most important museum of the Risorgimento in Italy. Heading towards the Salotto di Torino, Piazza San Carlo, and moving along the ancient Via Nuova, now Via Roma, you will then return to the ancient Collegio dei Nobili for a jump back in time of at least 5,000 years, where you will immerse yourself in the wonderful world of one of the most important civilizations in history: Ancient Egypt.
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Discover the Egyptian Museum of Turin with an exclusive Musement guided tour: travel back in time and relive the splendor, luxuries and daily life of the pharaohs and queens of Ancient Egypt.
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The Egyptian Museum of Turin - the world's first Egyptian Museum, second in importance only to the Cairo Museum - houses about 300,000 finds, 26,000 of which are kept in warehouses for scientific research. Mummies, papyri and funerary finds of the great pharaohs make it an unmissable location for anyone visiting the city of Turin.
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The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities was founded in 1824 when King Carlo Felice purchased a large collection of Egyptian antiquities - from statues, sarcophagi, and mummies to papyri, bronzes, amulets and everyday objects - it was initially put together by egyptologist Vitaliano Donati and was later expanded by Bernardino Drovetti, Consul General of France in Egypt. Thanks to excavations conducted in Egypt in the late 19th century and in the 1930s, the collection continued to expand until it reached its extraordinary grandeur today.
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Discover the Mensa Isiaca (the first object to arrive in Turin for the museum, probably manufactured in Rome in the first century AD for a temple dedicated to Isis), the small temple of Ellesija (the last object acquired by the museum, a 1970 donation by the Republic of Egypt in recognition for Italy's support in the rescue of the Nubian monuments) and a copy of the Rosetta Stone, now preserved at the British Museum in London..