The riviera, the Côte d'Azur and the Alps .

The old torinesi say that you can reach anywhere in an hour. They exaggerate, but not excessively. In the final analysis, this is the great luxury of living in Torino: being at the centre of a ring of mountains and close to the Mediterranean.
From Genoa to Cannes, all the most famous tourist resorts of the Riviera and the Côte d'Azur are linked to Torino by motorway. You can be on the beach in an hour and a half. There are also excellent regular rail connections.
Only a little more than one hour from Torino there are winter sports resorts renowned throughout the world: it is enough to mention Bardonecchia, San Sicario, Sauze d'Oulx and Sestrières. Other major skiing resorts are nearby - such as the Via Lattea, with over 400 kilometres of slopes, specially designed for competitions.
The mountains are the natural home for winter sports, but also the ideal place for enjoying uncontaminated nature. In warmer months, the Alpine valleys closest to the city - Lanzo, Susa, Chisone, Germanasca and Pellice - are the perfect setting for walks and hikes, taking visitors even as far as the Gran Paradiso national park.
The Gran Paradiso was the first park established in Italy and incorporates a vast area of valleys and mountains. The highest peak is over four thousand metres high, like many others in the Valle d'Aosta, where the most famous are Mont Blanc (4,810 metres), Monte Rosa and the Matterhorn.
The Alps boast the highest peaks in Europe, and constitute a unique natural and biological heritage. An extremely important environmental and tourist resource, that is conserved and enhanced with the due equilibrium in Piedmont: there are two national parks and 55 protected areas.