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Lingotto Rooftop Track — Giacomo Mattè Trucco, Turin

The banked rooftop test track on top of the former Fiat Lingotto factory in Turin
Artwork FileTurin, Italy

Lingotto Track

StandingJun 2026

Giacomo Mattè Trucco (engineer) for Fiat · Lingotto, Via Nizza, Turin, Italy · 1923

Photo: Gunnar Klack / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), as published on Street Art Utopia.

Fiat’s Lingotto factory in Turin, designed by engineer Giacomo Mattè Trucco and officially opened in 1923, ends in a car test track on its roof. Production climbed floor by floor and finished cars were tested up top; the track survives today as the Pista 500 garden. Source Source Source Source Checked

Standing June 2026: a photograph dated 12 June 2026 shows the rooftop track, now the Pista 500 garden, on top of Lingotto. Source Checked

💡 4 things to know

  1. Built from the bottom up
    Treccani describes production starting on the ground floor and moving upward, with final testing on the track on the roof. Source Checked
  2. Opened by the king
    According to Treccani, King Vittorio Emanuele III officially inaugurated the plant on 15 May 1923. Source Reported
  3. How long is the track?
    MuseoTorino and Wikipedia give about 1.5 km; Fiat’s 2021 press release calls it a 1.2 km ring. Source Source Source Conflicting
  4. From factory to garden
    Renzo Piano repurposed the building, and in 2019 the track was turned into a garden with over 40,000 plants, opened as La Pista 500 in 2021. Source Source Checked

📍 Where it is

On the roof of the Lingotto complex on Via Nizza in Turin; Turismo Torino gives the Pista 500 address as Via Nizza 230, while MuseoTorino lists the factory at Via Nizza 250. Source Source Conflicting

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🗓️ Sightings

  1. 202122 Sep

    Fiat opens La Pista 500 garden

  2. 202612 Jun

    Photographed by Gunnar Klack

Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.

✅ The facts

Designer
Giacomo Mattè Trucco, engineer Source Source Source Checked
Opened
1923 (15 May 1923, inaugurated by the king, according to Treccani); built in phases 1915–1922 and 1924–1926 per Treccani Source Source Source Checked
Track built
1919, according to MuseoTorino Source Reported
Track length
About 1.5 km (MuseoTorino, Wikipedia) or a 1.2 km ring (Fiat) Source Source Source Conflicting
Location
Lingotto, Via Nizza, Turin, Italy Source Source Checked
Today
La Pista 500, a rooftop garden of more than 40,000 plants Source Source Checked

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Last checked: 9 November 2026. How we verify art