ESB-ITA23 | Location

About Turin

Roman castrum, medieval town, first capital of Italy. Torino offers a lasting memory of castles, beautiful palaces, royal residences, monuments. Torino is one of the cultural leading cities in Italy.

The city’s lively cultural scene includes music, theatre, visual arts, photography, film, design, dance and heritage as well as a wide choice of museums, 46 in town, such as the world-famous Egyptian Museum, the beautiful Galleria Sabauda with Italian and Flemish painting collections, the Automobile Museum, the Modern Art Gallery, the Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Cinema Museum with its unique interactive approach.

Around Torino thousands of excursion opportunities: the Alps, the lakes, the artistic cities and villages, the golf courses, the wine and food tours.

For more information, please visit www.turismotorino.org

How to get to Turin

By plane
Caselle International Airport, 20 minutes away from the city centre, allows daily connections with the main European cities.
Malpensa International Airport, located only 60 minutes’ drive from Turin.
Both airports are connected to the city centre by bus (www.torino.arriva.it or www.flibco.com)

By train
Turin has two main railway stations, Porta Nuova and Porta Susa, both in the city centre. They are connected, also with frequent high-speed rail services, to the main destinations in Italy and France, and from there to the rest of Europe.
More info at www.trenitalia.com and www.italotreno.it

By car
Motorways A6 Torino-Savona, A4 Torino-Milan-Venice, A21 Torino-Piacenza-Bologna, A5 Torino-Aosta, A32 Torino-Bardonecchia connect Torino to most Italian cities, to France, Switzerland, Austria, and the rest of Europe.

About the venue

The Meeting will be held at Politecnico di Torino, one of the most prestigious public institutions at both the International and the Italian levels concerning education, research, technology transfer and services in all sectors of architecture and engineering.

Address: Aule R, Politecnico di Torino, via Paolo Borsellino, 51, 10138 Torino

How to get to the meeting venue

Politecnico di Torino is located close to the city centre. It can be reached from the city centre in a short time by metro or bus.
The closest metro station is Vinzaglio (about 10 minutes’ walking distance from the Politecnico main entrance).

Many bus and tram lines have stops at Politecnico. Bus lines 58, 33, 12 and tram line 10 stop near Politecnico main building entrance (corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24). Bus line 12 stops in front of the Cittadella Politecnico entrance (corso Castelfidardo 34/A). Bus line Star 1 stops at about 300 metres from the same entrance. Other bus or tram lines (e.g. lines 33, 42 and 15) have also stops not far from Politecnico.

And if you like to walk, it takes about 20 minutes from Porta Nuova railway station in the city centre, and just about 10 minutes from the Porta Susa railway station.