Choose your parking approach before driving towards Piazza Castello. Turin’s central garages let you finish the journey on foot, while Fermi, Stura and Caio Mario offer cheaper parking with a metro or tram journey into the centre. The best choice depends on which side you arrive from, how many people need transport tickets and whether you are carrying luggage.
Central garages or park and ride
| Criterion | Roma–San Carlo–Castello | Palestro | Fermi | Stura | Caio Mario |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arrival side | Centre, Porta Nuova side | Centre, Porta Susa side | West, Collegno | North | South, Mirafiori |
| Six daytime hours, parking only | €12 | €15 | €3Best | €3Best | €3Best |
| Continuous 24 hours, parking only | €42.60 | — | €12 | €12 | €12 |
| Restricted-zone approach | Use Piazza Carlo Felice, outside ZTL | Zone edge; no gate crossing | Via De Amicis; no gate crossing | Corso Romania; exempt approach | — |
| Onward journey to Piazza Castello | Walk: about 1.2 km; about 17 minutes | Walk: about 1.3 km; about 18 minutes | Walk about 3 minutes + M1 about 23 minutes + walk about 18 minutes; total about 44 minutes | Walk about 1 minute + line 4 about 30 minutes + walk about 3 minutes; total about 33 minutes | Walk about 8 minutes + line 4 about 32 minutes + walk about 3 minutes; total about 43 minutes |
Choose a central garage if avoiding a transport transfer matters more than the parking saving. Both central garages allow vehicle entry and retrieval 24 hours a day, every day. Roma’s Piazza Castello entrance requires crossing a restricted-traffic gate, so use Piazza Carlo Felice for entry and exit instead. Palestro can be reached without entering the zone.
The six-hour stay runs from entry to exit, including both journeys to and from the square. Roma’s full-day calculation combines its daytime and overnight bands. Palestro’s daily cap can make a longer daytime visit more economical than paying for every hour separately.
For park and ride, choose the site on your arrival side rather than driving across Turin. Transport purchases are additional to the parking-only charges above. Allow extra time for parking, payment and waiting beyond the onward journey components. With children or several travellers, compare the whole party’s fares against a garage, not just the price of leaving the car. With bags, a central garage avoids carrying them onto public transport.
Fermi, Stura and Caio Mario park and ride
- Onward lines
- Fermi: M1 to Porta Nuova; Stura and Caio Mario: line 4
- City ticket, all three journeys
- €1.90 digital / €2 chip-on-paper; 100 minutes from validation; urban and suburban network; one metro journey
- Daily Park&Ride, all three sites
- €5.50 = €1 parking + €4.50 urban/suburban travel; day of issue only
- Stura transport entitlement
- One person per daily Park&Ride ticket
- Metro early intervals
- Before 07:00: about 3–5 minutes weekdays; 5 minutes Saturdays
- Metro daytime service
- Frequency-based, 07:00–21:00
- Metro late intervals
- 7 minutes from 21:00 while running to about midnight; then generally 9–10 minutes Friday/Saturday
- Last metro, Porta Nuova towards Fermi
- Monday–Thursday and Sundays/public holidays: 21:30; Friday/Saturday: 01:00
- Line 4 intervals
- Frequency-based 07:00–21:00; evenings approximately 25–30 minutes at termini
- Last line 4, Porta Nuova towards Stura
- 23:44, all recurring day types
- Last line 4, Porta Nuova towards Caio Mario
- Monday–Saturday: 23:54; Sundays/public holidays: 23:44
- Fermi: access walk about 250 metres, about 3 minutes; M1 about 23 minutes; final walk about 1.3 km, about 18 minutes.
- Stura: access walk about 100 metres, about 1 minute; line 4 about 30 minutes; onward walk through Garibaldi about 200 metres, about 3 minutes.
- Caio Mario: access walk about 600 metres, about 8 minutes; line 4 about 32 minutes; then the shared walk from Garibaldi.
From Fermi, take M1 to Porta Nuova, then walk along the Via Roma corridor towards Piazza Castello. The metro option still leaves a substantial central walk. That makes it less attractive if your main aim is to spare someone walking, rather than avoid driving into Turin.
- Name
- Fermi interchange car park
- Location
- Between Via Fermi and Via De Amicis, Collegno, west of Turin. Maps
- Essential fact
- An interchange car park beside Fermi metro station in Collegno.
- Price
- €0.50/hour Hourly parking
- €5.50/day Park&Ride daily
- €35 24-hour monthly subscription
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From Stura, take line 4 to Garibaldi and continue on foot towards Piazza Castello. The boarding point is close to the car park, making the first part easier with bags than at Caio Mario.
- Name
- Stura interchange car park
- Location
- At the Corso Vercelli, Corso Romania and Corso Giulio Cesare junction in northern Turin, entered from Corso Romania. Maps
- Essential fact
- A northern Turin interchange car park with its vehicle entrance on Corso Romania.
- Price
- €0.50/hour
- €35/night Monthly 24-hour parking subscription
- €95/night Quarterly 24-hour parking subscription
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From Caio Mario, walk to line 4, ride to Garibaldi and continue to the square. The walk before boarding is the main extra burden here, especially with children or luggage. Both park-and-ride tram connections serve Garibaldi in both directions, so board towards your parking site on the return journey.
- Name
- Caio Mario interchange car park
- Location
- Mirafiori, southern Turin, accessed from Via Pernati di Momo. Maps
- Essential fact
- An interchange car park in Mirafiori, southern Turin, with access from Via Pernati di Momo.
- Price
- €0.50/hour Ordinary parking
- €5.50 Daily Park&Ride · Valid only on the day of issue
For a late return by tram, use Porta Nuova as your boarding point for the final departures above. Leave time to reach it from Piazza Castello. For Fermi, the earlier metro finish on most evenings matters if you plan dinner in the centre. M1S replacement buses serve after Monday’s metro closure and before the metro opens on public holidays.
The daily parking-and-transit product suits a same-day visit rather than an overnight stay. At Stura, additional travellers need their own transport tickets. For two additional adults making separate outward and return journeys on digital City tickets, add €7.60. A larger party can narrow the saving over a central garage, while still having to board public transport twice.
Roma–San Carlo–Castello and Palestro garages
Roma–San Carlo–Castello lets you begin sightseeing along Via Roma, passing Piazza San Carlo on the way to Piazza Castello. Starting from its Piazza Carlo Felice access near Porta Nuova keeps the walking route straightforward. Choose it for the central walk, not to drive right up to the square.
- Name
- Roma–San Carlo–Castello car park
- Location
- Beneath the Via Roma corridor between Piazza Castello and Piazza Carlo Felice, Turin. Maps
- Essential fact
- A central underground garage with vehicle entrances serving the Via Roma corridor in Turin.
- Price
- €2/hour 08:00–23:00
- €1.40/hour 23:00–08:00
- €1.80/hour ACI members, daytime
Palestro, at Via Antonio Bertola near Porta Susa, suits arrivals on the western side of the centre. Its walk to Piazza Castello brings you into the historic centre without a tram or metro transfer. The entrance is on the zone edge, so use the garage approach rather than following a shortcut through the restricted centre.
- Name
- Palestro car park
- Location
- Near Porta Susa station, Turin. Maps
- Essential fact
- A central garage near Porta Susa station and the edge of Turin’s restricted traffic area.
- Price
- €2.50/hour
- €16/day maximum daily rate
With luggage, a central garage removes the boarding and ticket-buying stages of park and ride, but you still carry bags on the final walk. If your immediate destination is accommodation, compare the garage’s position with the hotel, rather than choosing solely by its distance from Piazza Castello.
ZTL Centrale and emissions rules
Turin’s ZTL Centrale is the restricted traffic zone covering the centre between the Porta Nuova side, Porta Susa side, Piazza della Repubblica and the Po. Its perimeter roads and squares are outside the controlled area. Access is restricted Monday–Friday, 07:30–10:30, to authorised vehicles. A parking destination inside this area does not by itself make the drive lawful.
For a public garage within the zone, give the operator your vehicle registration for plate registration. At participating automatic-registration garages, parking for more than 30 minutes adds the plate to the authorised list. Occasional access uses an applicable exemption rather than a circulation permit. Foreign-registered cars cannot obtain GTT’s listed ZTL permits, and hired cars are not automatically exempt.
Other qualifying visitor exemptions include hotel guests, patients attending public or accredited healthcare facilities, people attending weddings or funerals, and eligible pure-electric vehicles registered outside Turin. Patients should give their registration to the healthcare facility. The relevant exemption and supporting documents matter, not simply your reason for wanting to enter.
Cameras identify the registration plate. For a hire car, the rental company can pass your driver details to the authorities and levy a contractual administration charge, separate from the fine.
Emissions restrictions reach across Turin, not just the ZTL. Year-round, every day including holidays, petrol and diesel Euro 0–2 cars and LPG or natural-gas Euro 0–1 cars are banned throughout the day. From 15 September to 15 April, diesel Euro 3–4 cars are also banned Monday–Friday, 08:00–19:00. Diesel Euro 5 and higher classes are outside these structural bans, but temporary smog alerts may add limits. Stura’s designated approach uses exempt roads, so do not treat a different route through the city as equivalent.
Street parking and free periods
Ordinary blue-bay parking is free overnight, on Sundays and on public holidays. Charging generally applies Monday–Saturday, 08:00–19:30. Free charging periods do not override a bay’s reservation or supplementary signs, so distinguish an ordinary visitor space from a resident or other reserved bay.
Piazza Carlo Felice, Piazza Lagrange and Piazza Paleocapa have a two-hour maximum with a parking disc, except for residents. Read supplementary signs before leaving the car, particularly where your intended stay spans a change from visitor use to reserved use.
An unreserved street space can save money, but you may spend part of your visit looking for one. Fermi, Stura or Caio Mario gives you a definite parking destination and an onward transport connection. That can be preferable to circulating around the centre hoping for a free bay.
Do
- Use standard blue-marked visitor bays and pay during charging hours.
- At a meter, enter your vehicle registration and obtain the parking ticket; pay with accepted coins or cards.
- Use GTT SostAPP without displaying a digital parking title.
- Scratch the arrival date and time on a paper voucher and display it on the dashboard.
Don’t
- Use yellow-and-blue bays between 19:30 and 08:00 unless you hold the required resident or other permit; outside that window they are ordinary paid spaces.
- Use a yellow reserved bay unless its symbol and upright sign authorise your vehicle or category.
- Assume a free charging period cancels a local time limit or reservation.
Hotel parking and ZTL access
Parking near your hotel can spare an extra journey with luggage. Treat a hotel garage as a separate accommodation cost, not something included automatically in the room price. Permission to park and a hotel guest’s ZTL exemption are different arrangements: a reserved space does not itself authorise the drive to it.
Is bringing the car worthwhile?
Bringing a car for central sightseeing
Pros
- Useful for a wider Piedmont road trip.
- Can simplify luggage transfers to accommodation.
Cons
- Parking and access restrictions add cost and decisions.
- Park and ride adds boarding, walking and individual transport fares.
Central Turin is walkable for sightseeing, so leave the car parked between visits. With children or limited mobility, weigh the actual walks and transfers individually rather than assuming park and ride is easier. If you arrive through Malpensa solely for a city stay, Malpensa to Turin by bus or train offers an alternative to hiring a car.
Sources & fact-checking
Checks against the sources below cover: services and fares and charges.
- Città di Torino; GTT S.p.A. administers the retrospective exemption submissions — service
- Sosta strisce blu
- Parcheggi pubblici e sosta a pagamento (Trasporti e Viabilità)
- Sosta
- Rilascio stalli di sosta a persone con disabilità
- Urban and suburban transport fares
- Metropolitana automatica di Torino — GTT
- LINEA 4 – via delle Querce – strada del Drosso
- Linee urbane e suburbane — GTT
- Parcheggio Roma – San Carlo – Castello
- APCOA — fares and charges
- PARCHEGGIO FERMI (non custodito)
- Rotazione — Parcheggio Stura
- Parcheggio Caio Mario — GTT
- Automobile Club di Torino: Viabilità
- APCOA — service
- 2010_00680
- Italian Highway Code (Article 7(14)); ACI publishes the code text — fares and charges
- Misure antismog a tutela della salute
- Misure antismog a tutela della salute, in vigore le limitazioni strutturali
- Italian Highway Code, Article 7; enforced by the City of Turin — fares and charges
