Fiat Lingotto Factory

The Lingotto is the old Fiat factory on Via Nizza in Turin, and it is famous for one reason: the cars were built on a production line that climbed the building floor by floor, then driven up a spiral ramp and tested on a track laid on the roof. Construction started in 1916, the rooftop track was finished in 1921 and the two spiral ramps in 1925 and 1926. The main building is over 500 metres long and the roof sits 28 metres up.

The plant built Fiats until 1982. Renzo Piano then turned it into the complex it is today, with a shopping centre, hotels, a concert hall, a congress centre and the Pinacoteca Agnelli art gallery in a glass box on the roof. The track survived all of it.

Today the rooftop is called the Pista 500. The 1.1 km loop is a garden of more than 40,000 plants in 28 planted islands with outdoor artworks along the way, and the museum sells a cheap ticket that is just for the roof. Casa FIAT, the free Fiat history display up there, and the FIATCafé500 have their own listings.

• The full 1.1 km rooftop loop is walkable, with the two banked corners at each end fenced off so you look at them rather than walk them.
• The South Ramp, the spiral the finished cars drove up, is open to walk on its footpath. It is steep, with a gradient over 8 percent.
• The roof is a linear garden: 28 planted islands covering about 7,000 of the 27,000 square metres, with more than 40,000 plants from 300 Piedmont species and a hazelnut grove.
• Outdoor art along the lap, including a monumental billboard commission that changes each year through the Pista 500 Prize. Works come and go, so the line up on the day differs from the website list.
• Views across Turin from the track edge, with benches along the loop.
• Audio captions for kids are posted around the track, and there is a tactile model of the Lingotto in Casa FIAT.
• A rooftop restaurant, La Pista, runs seven days and is reached by the Lingotto lift.
• Summer evenings bring open air cinema and events on the track.

• Rooftop only ticket: €4 adults, €2 for 13 to 25 years of age, over 65s and groups of 8 or more. Free under 12 years of age, visitors with a disability plus one companion, Abbonamento Musei and Torino+Piemonte card holders.
• Combined ticket with the Pinacoteca Agnelli gallery: €12 adults, €24 for a family of 3 that includes a teenager aged 13 to 18. Gallery only is €10.
• Booking is not required. During October 2026 online sales are suspended and tickets are sold at the museum ticket office only.
• Pista 500 hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 9pm, last entry 30 minutes before close, closed Monday. From 15 September to 28 October it closes at 7pm, 8pm on Fridays. The gallery itself closes at 7pm year round.
• Getting there: Lingotto metro station, then enter the complex at Via Nizza 262 and follow the signs through the shopping centre to the lifts. There is a second entrance at Via Fenoglietti 15. Driving, the museum recommends car park sector L.
• Keep your ticket and the sticker on you for the whole visit, staff check on the roof.
• No bikes, scooters, skateboards or anything on wheels on the track, kids' ones included. Prams are fine, with care on the South Ramp.
• Dogs only if they are guide dogs or small enough to be carried. Large bags go in the free lockers before the indoor galleries.
• Photos and video for personal use only. Tripods and professional gear need written permission from the museum.
• Toilets and benches are on the roof. The baby change is downstairs near the indoor galleries, not on the track.
• The track is a working garden, so the planted islands are off limits and the artworks cannot be touched.
• Wheelchair accessible by lift, with a wheelchair available on loan and a free sensory kit at the ticket office.
• Phone +39 011 0925011, info@pinacoteca-agnelli.it.
• Last verified: 19 October 2026
• Official link: https://www.pinacoteca-agnelli.it/en/pista-500/