Italy Guide
Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta
The Lingotto Centre
The original Fiat factory, the Lingotto CentreAddress: Via Nizza 250 (tram #1 or #18 from Porta Nuova is still Fiat's headquarters but the main part of the building, redesigned by Renzo Piano, houses a conference and exhibition space, a shopping centre, a hotel and the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli at no. 230 (Tues– Sun 10am–7pm, ticket office closes at 6.15pm; €7), a very small but priceless collection of artworks donated by the head of the Fiat dynasty, Gianni Agnelli, and his wife. The paintings are housed in a glass-and-metal gallery, which overlooks the test track on top of the former Fiat car works. The collection consists of mainly nineteenth- and twentieth-century masterpieces, including a number of Matisses and a couple of Picassos, as well as Modigliani's Nu Couché and Manet's La Négresse. The eighteenth century is represented by six Canalettos and Tiepolo's Halberdier in a Landscape.