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Every year, before and after the Christmas period, the streets and squares of the City of Turin are transformed into an open-air museum of luminous installations by great Italian and international artists.
The spectacle, which every evening at dusk invites people to walk through the streets, arcades, and squares, stopping every few steps to admire the bright works of art suspended among the buildings.
The “Luci d’Artista” (Lights of Artists) were born in 1998 as exceptional illuminations to celebrate the Christmas holidays and immediately became the subject of an ambitious goal: to create a public collection expressing “a high culture capable of communicating with everyone,” as stated by Fiorenzo Alfieri, the visionary creator. However, every project needs to evolve to remain alive: the “Luci d’Artista” have become a true institution dedicated to contemporary art, even more loved and well-known, open and sustainable, active throughout the year and not just during the winter months, with continuous communication with its audience and a new, richly detailed website.
Six Turin museums – Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Fondazione Merz, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, GAM Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, MAO Museum of Oriental Art, and PAV Parco Arte Vivente – through their Education Departments, promote opportunities for debate and actions with schools in the area, bringing the “Luci d’Artista” and contemporary art closer to traditional education, becoming protagonists of targeted educational proposals for all Turin districts.
Days
25 October 24
12 January 25
Timetable
17:00 - 23:59
Information/To know
Suitable for Everybody
Wheelchair accessible
Location/The place
Address
Torino, TO, Piemonte, Italia
How to get there
Due to its location, Turin serves as a natural hub connecting the surrounding Alpine valleys and is a point of convergence and passage for major national and international communication routes. Turin is easily accessible by car, train, or plane. It is a significant railway junction, especially for fast connections throughout Italy and parts of Europe along the Lyon-Paris route with trains such as Frecciarossa, Frecciabianca, Italo, and TGV. The city has five railway stations, two of which are international (Porta Nuova and Porta Susa), while three are mainly used for local transportation and suburban railway service (SFM). At Turin Airport, on the "Arrivals" level, taxis and rental cars are readily available. Turin can also be reached by train and bus. Within the city, a ring road (tangenziale) runs along its northern, western, and southern edges, connecting to five highways: A4 Trieste-Venice-Milan-Turin; T1/T2-A5 Mont Blanc Tunnel-Aosta-Turin; A6 Savona-Turin; A21 Piacenza-Turin; T4-A32 Fréjus Tunnel-Turin. A dense road network further connects Turin to the province and from there to the main national and trans-European routes. For people with disabilities, parking on blue lines is free.
