City of Turin

The City of Turin is the local authority that governs the Piedmontese capital. It is based at the Palazzo Civico, in piazza Palazzo di Città 1, where the city executive (Giunta comunale) and the City Council meet; the mayor in office is Stefano Lo Russo, proclaimed on 27 October 2021 ^[1]. The municipal territory is divided into eight districts (Circoscrizioni), from District 1 Centro-Crocetta to District 8 San Salvario-Cavoretto-Borgo Po-Nizza Millefonti-Lingotto-Filadelfia, each with its own bodies and decentralised offices ^[2].

The comune.torino.it portal is the administration's main digital channel: it gathers news and press releases, pages for governing bodies and offices, and service pages for citizens and businesses, from civil registry to the environment, from schools to mobility, as well as practical information such as the anti-smog traffic-light system and links to the City's themed portals, including the Turin civic libraries and TorinoGiovani ^[3]. The Comune's first institutional portal went online around thirty years ago; digital services developed from the late 1990s with trials of the microchip card and, from 2001, with the citizen's identity card for online access ^[4].

On 29 October 2025 the City put online a completely renewed website, which absorbed the TorinoFacile services portal and brings together more than a hundred digital services in a single section; its architecture follows the AgID model for municipalities published on Designers Italia ^[5]. The project, run by CSI Piemonte, was funded with €1.3 million from PNRR measure 1.4.1 ^[4]. In the Torino Top 100 ranking for September 2026, the site ranks among the 5,000 most-visited sites in Italy according to Google's Chrome UX Report.

Sistemi Urbani's appeal against the new Piano regolatore (September 2026)

On 17 September 2026, at the second co-planning conference on the new Piano regolatore generale (general zoning plan), the City of Turin confirms its position despite the appeal filed by Sistemi Urbani, a company of Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian State Railways); the mayor Stefano Lo Russo reaffirms the decision on building rights left unimplemented for 40 years.

Piano regolatore: the position confirmed despite Sistemi Urbani's appeal (September 2026)

Chronology

• 1 October 2026 — GTT service desks in Turin's eight Circoscrizioni switch from fortnightly to weekly opening starting 1 October. TorinoClick CronacaQui Torino
• 8 October 2026 — The City of Turin presents "La Prima Volta" ("The First Time"), a year-long project to guide 7,700 new voters towards voting, starting on 9 October 2026. → TorinoOggi CronacaQui Torino
• 20 October 2026 — Turin's Giunta comunale approves the agreement to launch, together with ASL Città di Torino and the Ente Morale Società per gli Asili Notturni Umberto I, a diabetes screening project aimed at people in situations of severe social marginalisation. → ANSA Piemonte TorinoOggi

Related articles: Districts of Turin, Ferrovie dello Stato, Launch of the MeMo – Metropoli in movimenTo Program by the Metropolitan City of Turin, Master Plan (Piano regolatore generale), Sistemi Urbani, The Municipality of Turin confirms its position on the new Master Plan (September 2026)

Sources

1. Organi di governo — Organi di governo — Città di Torino
2. Comune di Torino — Le circoscrizioni — Città di Torino
3. Città di Torino — Home — Città di Torino
4. Online il nuovo sito istituzionale della Città di Torino. Servizi e informazioni su un unico portale — TorinoClick — Online il nuovo sito istituzionale della Città di Torino, 29 October 2025
5. Un nuovo sito web — Un nuovo sito web — Città di Torino, 29 October 2025
6. Nuovo Prg, Torino tira dritto sul ricorso di Ferrovie. Il sindaco: “La Città ha scelto” — La Stampa, 17 September 2026
7. Mobilità sostenibile, alla Città metropolitana di Torino 25,9 milioni — ANSA Piemonte, 17 September 2026