Orbassano works well as a base: 10 minutes from Beinasco, 10km from Lingotto Rooftop Test Track.
Orbassano is in Piedmont, Italy, with about 22,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Beinasco, about 4 km away.
Orbassano (Italian: [orbasˈsaːno]; Piedmontese: Orbassan [ʊrbaˈsɑŋ]) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 13 kilometres (8 miles) southwest of Turin.
Orbassano borders the following municipalities: Turin, Rivoli, Rivalta di Torino, Beinasco,Read more Nichelino, Volvera, Candiolo, None.
Within an hour or so of Orbassano: Lingotto Rooftop Test Track (10 km), Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile (MAUTO) (11 km), Lingotto rooftop test track, Turin (The Italian Job) (11 km), Museo Egizio (13 km).
Are there any good drives near Orbassano?
The nearest famous roads are Colle delle Finestre, Col d'Agnel and Col du Mont Cenis.
Where is Orbassano?
Orbassano is in Piedmont, Italy, about 4 km from Beinasco.
Road trip
Drive to Orbassano
Add it as a stop and the planner works out the driving, the nights and what's worth seeing on the way.
The legendary banked test track on the roof of Fiat's 1923 Lingotto factory in Turin, star of The Italian Job. Now 'La Pista 500', a rooftop garden you can stroll beside the Casa 500 Fiat museum.
10 km · about 20 min drive
museum
Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile (MAUTO)
Italy's national automobile museum in Turin with over 200 cars tracing the entire history of the automobile.
11 km · about 20 min drive
film location
Lingotto rooftop test track, Turin (The Italian Job)
The banked rooftop track of the former Fiat factory features in the 1969 Italian Job Mini chase; it is open to walk today.
11 km · about 20 min drive
museum
Museo Egizio
The world's oldest museum dedicated to Egyptian archaeology, with the second-largest collection of Egyptian antiquities after Cairo.
13 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Turin
Piedmont's elegant capital with grand Baroque squares, the world's finest Egyptian museum outside Cairo, and Italy's cafe culture birthplace.
14 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Mole Antonelliana
Turin's soaring landmark spire houses the National Cinema Museum, with a glass lift to a panoramic Alpine view.
14 km · about 25 min drive
film location
Chiesa della Gran Madre di Dio, Turin (The Italian Job steps)
The Minis race down the church's monumental steps in the 1969 film's Turin chase.
14 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Reggia di Venaria Reale
A vast baroque royal palace and gardens outside Turin, a Savoy Versailles with its dazzling Great Gallery.
16 km · about 20 min drive
Driving roads near Orbassano
39 kmColle delle FinestreA legendary 2,178 m Piedmont climb from the Susa Valley: 33 paved hairpins followed by a historic unpaved military road to the summit, made famous by dramatic Giro d'Italia stages.
57 kmCol du Mont CenisA historic Franco-Italian border crossing with a large summit lake and plateau, once traversed by Napoleon's armies on the route between Turin and Lyon.
57 kmCol d'AgnelOne of the highest paved border crossings in the Alps at 2744m between France and Italy, remote and quiet with an authentic high-mountain atmosphere.
57 kmLanghe VineyardsA UNESCO-listed wine region in Piedmont of rolling vine-covered hills producing world-class Barolo and Barbaresco wines.
57 kmColle dell'AgnelloAt 2,744 m one of Europe's highest paved passes, a remote, exhilarating drive on the French border above Pontechianale.
61 kmColle del NivoletA spectacular dead-end road climbing to 2,612 m through Gran Paradiso National Park, past alpine lakes and glacier scenery; its serpentine final ramps starred in the 2003 film The Italian Job.