There are many reasons why Turin is becoming popular and loved by the tourist crowd. Apart for the low cost flights, many tourists choose to end their trip here to do some shopping before returning back home. This guide offers you a sustainable alternative to the familiar shopping experience. In addition to lowering our negative environmental impact, it also offers significant financial savings. These places that we suggest to visit for shopping or just to enjoy wandering around, comprise altogether a significant touristic experience that will keep Turin in your heart forever.
Warning for tourists:
Watch out for your wallet, mobile phone and other valuables when you visit the markets, second-hand shops, the train station area or the main streets of the city center, because the phenomenon of pick-pocketing is widespread in Italy.
Markets
You can read about the amazing food markets in Turin and stores without packaging in the article Turin: A Vegan guide to the slow food capital.
Balôn flea market
Piazza Borgo Dora (Entrances from the north corner of the central market Porta Palazzo)
Saturday – 8:00-16:00 (some stalls will close earlier on a rainy day or in August)
Sunday – once a month on the second Sunday, between the hours 8:00-16:00
Balôn still holds the title of Europe’s largest weekly flea market. This is the place to buy, to look around and to be seen in Turin. Here you will find the most Italian items imaginable at negotiable prices. If you desire a Bialetti stove coffee maker, a pasta machine, clothes, children toys or unique handicrafts, you will easily find here all of these.
On the second Sunday of each month this market features even more stalls under the brand Grand Balôn, and it focuses on handicrafts and antiques.
In the center of the market you will also find restaurants and taverns that offer a selection of local delicacies that you will not find anywhere else.
Clothing
HUMANA
HUMANA Second Hand Torino
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 41 (near the main train station)
Humana Vintage – Via Pietro Micca
Via Pietro Micca 14 (city center)
Humana Vintage – Via Po
Via Po 39 (city center)
In Turin, there are 3 second-hand clothing stores of the international chain Humana in the city, each with a different character. The main branch, HUMANA Second Hand Torino, is situated near the central station and it focuses on contemporary style with clothes at as-new condition and affordable prices. Pay attention to which store you actually enter because next door there is another store for luxury brands of high fashion second-hand clothing and the prices are correspondingly high.
The other two branches of HUMANA in Turin are for vintage clothing, meaning clothes at your age or even older than you.
The store in Via Pietro Micca itself is architecturally spectacular and the prices there are usually cheaper.
The other vintage shop on Via Po is in the university area, right in the center of student life, and is more expensive but with nice items.
CHA.RLY Vintage&flowers
Via Giuseppe Pomba 29 (city center)
A little more expensive store but very nice and centrally located in the city.
Kilos weight clothing
Via Luigi Tarino 18 (Vanchiglia)
Really nice store of clothes by weight along more expensive items with separate pricing.
ÒUA! Vintage Club
Via Guastalla 18 (Vanchiglia)
This store is not cheap, but it is worth a visit because the clothes here are very beautiful and carefully selected.
Sin Control Vintage
Via Santa Giulia 35 (Vanchiglia)
Young hipster store.
People For People -Torino
Via Giulia di Barolo 27/A (Vanchiglia)
An ideological second-hand store that arose in the Liguria region at the pick of the Covid-19 pandemic, and it later on established a second branch in Turin.
Tuttotorna
Via Catania 12 (Near the Luigi Einaudi campus of the university)
A shop for women’s clothing with a limited yet high-quality selection, in a charming neighborhood that is worth visiting anyhow for a coffee (Café BLOOM) and cake (Torteria Berlicabarbis 2) or just for a stroll.
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