Monte dei Cappuccini

Church Turin, Italy

Monte dei Cappuccini is a hill 283 m above sea level. which rises in the city of Turin, about 200 meters from the right bank of the Po, in the Borgo Po district. It is very close to the historic centre, near the Vittorio Emanuele I bridge, which gives access to Piazza Vittorio Veneto. On it stands the convent and the Baroque church of Santa Maria al Monte, entrusted to the Capuchin friars, hence the name. The hill also houses, in the south wing of the convent, the National Mountain Museum, accessible from the panoramic square at the top, then a restaurant halfway up the hill, an underground nuclear physics laboratory, an Art Nouveau villa in via Gaetano Giardino 9, which houses some offices and a part of the provincial historical archive of the Capuchin friars.