Club to Club (C2C) Festival: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Turin)

Four nights in a car factory

C2C takes over an old Fiat plant. The Lingotto complex is a long concrete building on Via Nizza in south Turin. Fiat built it between 1916 and 1923 to make cars, with the assembly line running upward floor by floor. Finished cars were tested on a track on the roof.

Renzo Piano converted it into exhibition halls, a shopping arcade, a hotel and a gallery. For four nights each autumn, those halls hold Italy’s leading festival of electronic and experimental music. Expect long, high-ceilinged industrial rooms rather than a field, and a festival that takes place mostly after dark.

The 2026 edition: dates and line-up

The 2026 festival runs from Thursday, October 29 to Sunday, November 1. The announced line-up includes:

• Robyn, the Swedish pop artist whose dancefloor records have a big following among club audiences
• The Avalanches, the Australian sample collage group
• BadBadNotGood, the Toronto band that moves between jazz, hip-hop and soundtrack work

Plenty of other international acts share the bill. C2C began in Turin in 2002, and it has always booked pop crossovers alongside harder experimental sets. Expect to spend one hour in front of a famous name and the next in a dark room with someone you’ve never heard of.

Confirm timing, the full line-up and tickets on the official C2C site. Rely on that site for set times and ticket formats, not on reposts.

Halloween, Ognissanti and the long weekend

This weekend falls on two holidays. Saturday, October 31 is Halloween, and the city’s bars and clubs run their own parties that night. Sunday, November 1 is Ognissanti (All Saints’ Day), which is a national public holiday in Italy.

That matters for planning. On Ognissanti, expect some shops and smaller businesses to close and public transport to run a reduced holiday timetable. Do your errands, pharmacy runs and supermarket shopping on Friday or Saturday.

Many Italians make a ponte (long weekend) of it, so trains into Turin and central hotels fill up. Book both early. Turin’s contemporary art week, built around the Artissima fair, usually falls in early November too. Galleries are busy and rooms are scarce.

Getting to Lingotto

Metro Line 1 is Turin’s only metro line, so it’s easy to use. It runs from Fermi in the west, through Porta Susa and Porta Nuova, down Via Nizza. Get off at Lingotto station and the complex is a short walk.

• From Porta Nuova (main station): take Line 1 south, about ten minutes.
• By train: Torino Lingotto railway station is just behind the complex, which suits regional arrivals.
• From the airport: Turin-Caselle is north of the city. Get into the centre first, then take Line 1 south.

Late-night metro service is limited, so check the GTT timetable before the night begins. If the last train has gone, the 2km walk north up Via Nizza to Porta Nuova is flat and straight.

The roof track and the streets around it

Arrive in daylight at least once. The rooftop test track is now La Pista 500, a planted walkway along the old banked oval. The Pinacoteca Agnelli sits on top in a glass and steel box called the “Scrigno” (treasure chest). Its permanent collection includes works by Canaletto, Matisse and Picasso. Check its opening hours before you go.

Across the road from the metro is Eataly Lingotto, the first branch of the food chain. It opened in 2007 in the former Carpano vermouth factory. Eat a proper sit-down meal there before a long night. The neighbourhood south of Porta Nuova is mostly residential, so food choices thin out as the night goes on.

Aperitivo first, Lingotto later

Turin runs on aperitivo. Vermouth was invented here in the 1780s, and from early evening the bars around Piazza San Carlo, Via Po and San Salvario put out snacks with your drink. Locals eat dinner late, around 8:30 or 9pm, and the festival crowd keeps the same hours.

Some habits that will help:

• Order like a Torinese. Ask for “un vermouth” or a Negroni at the bar and take what comes with it. At most bars the snacks come with your drink.
• Pace the night. The best-known names often play late. Check the published set times before you leave dinner, not at the door.
• Pay by card. Cards and phones work almost everywhere in central Turin. Keep a little cash for the odd small bar and late-night snack counters.
• Tipping. Tipping isn’t expected. Rounding up for good table service is enough.
• Coats. The Lingotto halls are large, and late-October nights in Piedmont are cold. Bring a layer you can check in or tie round your waist, and check the official site for what bags are allowed.

On the days after, a bicerin (layered coffee, chocolate and cream) at a café in the historic centre is how Turin gets its mornings back.

Where to stay for the festival

Choose between being close to the venue and being close to everything else. Staying near Lingotto puts you a short walk from the halls, but restaurants nearby are few.

San Salvario is closer to the centre, beside Porta Nuova and the Parco del Valentino. It’s Turin’s nightlife district, packed with bars, and Line 1 runs straight down to the venue. The Quadrilatero Romano and the streets around Via Garibaldi suit people who want daytime sightseeing between festival nights. With the holiday weekend, book rooms as soon as your dates are fixed.