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NH Collection Torino Piazza Carlina
Turin, Italy · NH Collection · Accessible Luxury
The building went up in the second half of the 1600s as the Regio Albergo di Virtù, a royal institution that taught trades to the city's poorest boys, and in the 1910s one of its lodgers was Antonio Gramsci, which is why the Turin left grumbled loudly when it reopened as a hotel in November 2014. The C-shaped plan and the big courtyard survived the conversion: 160 rooms over five floors, two roof terraces, a kitchen garden up there feeding the restaurant downstairs, and one suite that looks straight at the Mole Antonelliana.
- 160 rooms
- Opened 2014
- Neighborhood: Piazza Carlina
- Rooms from 215 sq ft (20 m²)
About NH Collection Torino Piazza Carlina
- Antonio Gramsci lodged in this building during his Turin years, and its conversion into a hotel drew protests from the city's left over the fate of a political landmark.
- The seventeenth-century Regio Albergo di Virtù was a royal charity that trained poor young Torinesi for a trade; the hotel kept its C-shaped plan and central courtyard.
- The chef grows herbs and vegetables in a garden on the roof, five floors above Piazza Carlina, for the restaurant on the ground floor.
- Turndown here means a gianduiotto on the pillow, the hazelnut chocolate that Turin invented in the nineteenth century.
- Entry-level rooms start at 215 sq ft (20 m²).
History
The hotel occupies a seventeenth-century complex at Piazza Carlo Emanuele II 15, the square every Torinese calls Piazza Carlina. It was raised in the second half of the 1600s to house the Casa di Carità and then became the Regio Albergo di Virtù, a royal institution set up to teach a trade to young people who had no other route to work. Its most famous resident was Antonio Gramsci, the co-founder of the Italian Communist Party, who lodged here during his Turin years; NH's own account gives 1913 to 1915, while Italian trade coverage of the opening says 1914 to 1921.
NH Hotel Group converted the building over three years and opened it in November 2014 as the first NH Collection in Turin, its fifty-first hotel in Italy. The conversion kept the palazzo's original C-shaped plan and the large internal courtyard, with 160 rooms in eight categories spread over five floors: 106 Superior, 34 Premium, twelve Junior Suites, seven suites with a view and one Suite Antonelliana facing the Mole. Furniture was made by local craftsmen, some headboards carved in cedar, with parquet floors and a palette of cream, antique pink and blue. The top floor holds the fitness and wellness area, and the roof carries two panoramic terraces and a kitchen garden that supplies the Carlina Restaurant & Bar on the ground floor. The opening was not universally welcomed: the Turin left objected to a political landmark becoming a hotel.
The setting
Piazza Carlina is one of the quieter set-piece squares of central Turin, a short walk from the Mole Antonelliana, the Egyptian Museum and Palazzo Reale, and close to the Via Po arcades that run down to the river. The Quadrilatero Romano nightlife and the Piazza Vittorio Veneto cafes are both a few minutes away on foot, and this is chocolate country: the gianduiotto was created in Turin, and the historic cafes that invented bicerin and popularised vermouth are all within a short walk.
Restaurants and bars
- Restaurant Carlina — Restaurant · Italian dishes and international delights, inspired by regio
- Cedar-topped bar — Bar
Amenities
- Free WiFi
- Two rooftop terraces with panoramas and fragrant herb gardens
- Aromatic herb garden
- Central courtyard
- Nespresso machine in rooms
- Rain-effect shower
- Sleep Better mattress
- Hand-carved cedar headboards
- Flat-screen TV
- Guest Relations team for local insights, reservations and private tours
- Breakfast buffet in courtyard under glass-wrapped cloisters
- Gluten-free options at breakfast
- Vegetarian options on menu
- Onsite indoor parking €35 per day, must be reserved in advance
- Gianduiotti chocolates on pillow
- Pet-friendly
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