Church of the Visitation, Turin, Baroque church in Turin city centre, Italy

The Church of the Visitation in Turin is a Baroque church with a chamfered corner facade of simple design, a triangular pediment and stucco ornament, set at the corner of Via Arcivescovo and Via XX Settembre. Its plan centres on a square hall from which open the semicircular entrance and two side chapels, with a dome close to the entrance; the dome fresco of St Francis of Sales in Glory was painted by Michele Antonio Milocco in the 1760s, with the Theological Virtues in the pendentives.

The Visitandine nuns founded their monastery on this site in 1638 under the patronage of Matilde of Savoy, who commissioned the church from Francesco Lanfranchi. It was completed in 1660, ahead of the canonization of Francis de Sales in 1665. During the Napoleonic occupation the convent was closed and the church used as a warehouse and stable. The Missionary Fathers of St. Vincent de Paul, rectors from 1832, restored it.

The church is still served by the Congregation of the Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul, who took over the site in 1830. In 1838 they dedicated the right-hand chapel to their founder, Saint Vincent de Paul, with an altarpiece by Luigi Guglielmino. The left chapel's altar (1730) by Filippo Juvarra honours Saint Francis de Sales, whose rule is shown being given to Jeanne-Françoise Frémiot de Chantal in Alessandro Trona's painting.

The church is located on Via XX Settembre and benefits from good public transportation connections throughout the city. Visitors should follow standard practices for religious spaces, including respectful behavior and appropriate dress.

The right-hand chapel holds the first altar in Italy dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, set up by Blessed Sebastiano Valfrè (1629–1710). Its icon of the Sacred Heart invoked by St Vincent de Paul was painted by Luigi Guglielmino (1885–1962). A gilded wooden pulpit with a canopy stands against the wall, flanked by statues of the archangels Gabriel and Raphael.