Discover
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 light installations by great Italian and international artists.
The spectacle that every evening at dusk invites you to walk through the streets, arcades and squares, stopping every few steps towards the bright works of art suspended between the buildings.
Le Luci was born in 1998 as exceptional illuminations to celebrate the Christmas holidays, and immediately became the object of an ambitious goal: to create a public collection that is an expression of “a high culture capable of communicating with everyone”, as Fiorenzo Alfieri, who was the visionary creator, said. But every project needs to evolve in order to continue to be alive: the Luci d’Artista is a real institution dedicated to the contemporary, even more loved and known, open and sustainable, active all year round and not only in the winter months, equipped with continuous communication with its audience and a new rich and detailed website.
Six museums in Turin – Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Merz Foundation, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, GAM Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, MAO Museum of Oriental Art and PAV Parco Arte Vivente – thanks to their Education Departments – promote opportunities for debate and actions with local schools, bringing Lights and contemporary art closer to classical education, becoming the protagonists of targeted educational proposals for all Turin districts.
Days
25 October 24
12 January 25
Timetable
17:00 - 00:00
Information/To know
Suitable for Everybody
Wheelchair accessible
Location/The place
Address
Torino, TO, Italia
How to get there
Due to its location, Turin - easily accessible by car, train or plane - is the natural connection point between the surrounding Alpine valleys and the place of confluence and passage of major national and international communication routes. Turin is a railway junction of great importance, especially for the fast connections with all of Italy and part of Europe on the Lyon-Paris route with Frecciarossa, Frecciabianca, Italo and TGV trains. There are five city stations, two international (Porta Nuova and Porta Susa) and three in use mainly for local transport and the metropolitan railway service (SFM). From Turin Airport, on the "Arrivals" level, taxis and rental cars are easily available; Turin can also be reached by train and bus. In the city, through the ring road that runs along it to the north, west and south, 5 motorways converge: A4 Trieste-Venice-Milan-Turin; - T1/T2-A5 Mont Blanc Tunnel-Aosta-Turin; A6 Savona-Turin; A21 Piacenza-Turin; T4-A32 Fréjus-Turin Tunnel. A dense road network then connects Turin to the province and from there to the main national and trans-European roads. For people with disabilities, parking on the blue lines is free.
