Turin Untold History: “Quite Another Story” (Tutt’Altra Storia) is a project promoted by Quore LGBTQ+ Association, an organization that supports LGBTQ+ people in need by helping them find housing and employment, while also providing personal and psychological assistance and facilitating social integration. For this reason, part of the tour fee will directly support the Association and its activities.

This two-hour walking tour, led by a local guide, invites you to discover Turin through a series of untold LGBTQ+ histories. The itinerary unfolds through some of the city’s most iconic locations, including Piazza San Carlo, the Palatine Gates, Piazza Carignano, the Galleria Subalpina, Via Po, and Piazza Castello.

The tour focuses on twelve historical figures who left a lasting mark on European culture, yet whose lives and identities are often overlooked or deliberately omitted by traditional historiography. Through anecdotes, personal stories, and historical contexts, you will learn about their lives and, whenever possible, see the places where they lived or worked.

These individuals emerged as outsiders in times when homosexuality and queerness meant social exclusion, yet they all shared extraordinary creativity, intelligence, and resilience.

Among them is Julius Caesar, who passed through Turin in 58 BC on his march toward Gaul and was famously described by Cicero as “the husband of all wives and the wife of all husbands” for his relationships with both men and women. The journey continues with figures such as Erasmus of Rotterdam, author of controversial essays; Queen Christina of Sweden, who refused marriage and is believed to have had romantic relationships with women; Torquato Tasso, poet and historian; and Prince Eugene of Savoy, the great military strategist nicknamed “Mars without Venus.”

You will also encounter Princess de Lamballe, Leonardo da Vinci—twice accused and imprisoned for “immoral behavior”—Michelangelo Buonarroti, Friedrich Nietzsche, who suffered his first public mental collapse in Turin, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (known as Il Sodoma) for his flamboyant lifestyle, and Eleonora Duse, the iconic muse of Italian theatre in the early 20th century. Last but not least, the tour touches on Umberto I of Savoy, whose soldiers famously wore a cornflower pinned to their uniforms—an enduring symbol with layered meanings.

This is an unusual tour. Not a journey through bars or clubs, but a deep cultural exploration of Piedmont’s LGBTQ+ heritage, told through history, art, and hidden lives that deserve to be remembered.