Palazzo del Nuoto, Swimming venue in Santa Rita district, Turin, Italy
Palazzo del Nuoto is a swimming venue in the Santa Rita district that holds two 50-meter pools, including an Olympic-size competition basin and a training pool with substantial water surface. The facility offers modern training areas, spectator seating, and underground parking across multiple levels.
The project was launched in 2003, with completion first planned for 2005 and then 2007. Design errors stalled the site in 2006: the roof beams proved too flexible and were replaced with larger sections, triggering a legal dispute between the city and the contractor, who went bankrupt. Work resumed in 2009 after the architects revised the project, and the building opened on 10 May 2011.
The pools sit on the Marchi-Combi area, the former Juventus training ground, beside the Circolo della Stampa and the ex Regio Istituto di Riposo per la Vecchiaia. Since 2021 the site has been the seat of the Federazione Italiana Nuoto's Centro Federale di Alta Specializzazione, and the stands, redone in 2024, alternate blue and white seats with the FIN monogram at the centre.
The venue sits in the Santa Rita district beside the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino and the Palasport Olimpico, near Piazza d'Armi. The underground car park opened in November 2025, managed by GTT, and is a paid facility open to all users. The stands hold 1,184 seats plus 8 places for visitors with disabilities.
The roof cantilevers about 16 metres over Via Filadelfia, its underside clad in polished stainless steel panels. The same street facade and both side walls are fully glazed structural glass, so the pools and stands are visible from outside. The roof itself is prefabricated insulating panels on steel beams.
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