VALE
: one park, so many ways to enjoy it
Turin’s Valentino Park is being transformed into a widespread cultural hub: a project that combines nature, innovation, social inclusion, active civic participation, and architectural regeneration.
VALE opens its doors to the city, offering new spaces and opportunities to learn, participate, and come together.
Upcoming Events
And it’s also a mystery novel. With Chiara Valerio
The library as a place of the future, desire, imagination, and memory. Nearly half a century after its publication, we revisit The Name of the Rose. With Chiara Valerio
The Inaudible Cities. With Boosta and Matteo Caccia
A staged reading that takes us back to Calvino’s Invisible Cities: a blend “of memory, desires, and signs of a language.”
The Infinite Library. With Paolo Giordano
Words, stories, and inspiration in the age of artificial intelligence. Paolo Giordano reinterprets Borges’s “The Library of Babel” as a prophecy of our present.
On the branches, without touching the ground. With Dacia Maraini
Calvino’s Library. Nestled among the woods and perched on the branches, it is a place to think, to resist, and to imagine a different world. With Dacia Maraini
Roots and Branches: Evolution Between Staying and Migrating. With Telmo Pievani
Freedom to migrate and the right to stay are the two complementary values we must defend in the 21st century. With Telmo Pievani
The Roots of the Community. With Stefano Mancuso
A journey to discover the networks that plants weave to communicate, support one another, and survive together. A metaphor for rethinking the way we build community. / A metaphor for rethinking community. With Stefano Mancuso
VALE brings together some of the organizations that breathe life into Valentino Park. These are diverse places and projects united by a common vision: to make the park an increasingly vibrant, inclusive space that is open to learning and participation.
The first step is the new Central Library, which will take shape in the renovated spaces of Torino Esposizioni. The project also includes the restoration of the Borgo, and the Teatro Nuovo, dedicated to the performing arts. Also included is the new Architecture Campus of the Turin Polytechnic, theUniversity of Turin , and theBotanical Garden.
The transformation also extends to open spaces, with the expansion of green areas, a reduction in traffic, and the creation of a large pedestrian plaza in front of Torino Esposizioni. Plans also call for the resumption of navigation on the Po River, with new landing docks, a harbor basin, and electric boats.
This project enhances the heritage of Valentino Park and opens up new possibilities for experiencing green spaces and the city.
POLITECNICO DI TORINO
It has been located in the Valentino district since 1859. With the new campus, it is expanding its spaces for research, education, and campus life, opening them up to the city.
CENTRAL LIBRARY
It preserves and makes accessible the city’s documentary heritage: 750,000 documents on shelves and in storage, including manuscripts, rare books, and historical collections.
UNIVERSITY OF TURIN
It brings the treasures of its museums and collections to VALE, along with new spaces dedicated to study and gathering.
N BOTANICAL GARDEN
For nearly 300 years, it has combined research, education, and outreach, introducing people of all ages to the world of plants and fungi.
MEDIEVAL VILLAGE
is missing
How to live VALE
VALE can be experienced in many ways, through hundreds of thousands of books and stories, educational programs, workshops, meetings, performances, and creative experiences. It promotes new opportunities for growth, sharing, and learning that bridge culture, technology, and nature for everyone.
'S NEXT STEPS
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- Opening of the Central Library November 2026
