Unusual and surprising Turin

In Barriera di Milano, a historic district in the north of Turin, teems the most interesting and majestic street art in the city: 13 works by Francesco Camillo Giorgino, known as Millo, painted across entire blind walls of the district's buildings. Millo's giant murals, found in many other Italian cities, tell of the relationship between people and the city, its contradictions, the individual's relationship with the urban fabric

On the corner of via Giulia di Barolo and corso San Maurizio, in the Vanchiglia district, there is a house that seems to change shape as you walk around it. It is Casa Scaccabarozzi, known to the people of Turin as Fetta di Polenta (slice of polenta): the nickname comes from the yellow of the façades and above all from the incredibly thin plan, which on one side narrows to just 54 centimetres.

The Mole's glass lift rises through the inside of the dome to a viewpoint at about 85 metres: below you are the rooftops of the centre, the regular grid of the streets and, when the sky is clear, the mountains.

The Palazzo con il piercing, a contemporary work from 1991 known as Baci Rubati, was created by Corrado Levi in collaboration with Cliostraat, a group of artists and architects. Set on a historic eighteenth-century building in the heart of the Quadrilatero Romano, the Palazzo con il piercing is an evocative and rather unusual work. On either side of the piercing, at the two corners, there are drops of red and blue blood. The two colours probably represent nobility and poverty

A few steps from the beating heart of the city stands what ArchDaily has called the most beautiful house in the world, in the restoration category. The number 6 is the perfectly accomplished renovation of a building dating back to the 1600s. Baroque and modernity meet and blend skilfully in this 6,500-square-metre palazzo, which houses 36 apartments with garage, a wellness centre, a gym, a sauna and, in the central courtyard, a light installation by the artist Richi Ferrero. Needless to say, only exceptional owners live here

It is the green of the leaves and the red of the fruit that catch the eye in front of this door in via Argentero, in the San Salvario district. Then you make out the two wrought-iron pomegranate trees, laden with fruit, enclosed in a frame reminiscent of a peacock's tail.

Trees grow on the terraces, while the steel structures look like trunks and branches: the Condominio 25 Verde, in Via Chiabrera, a short distance from Parco del Valentino, is a house where architecture and vegetation truly intertwine.

Located in the Mirafiori Sud district, the Mausoleo della Bela Rosin is a neoclassical building, an exact copy of the Pantheon in Rome, but far less famous: a splendid work designed by the architect Angelo Demezzi, yet little known even in Turin itself, perfect for an itinerary of unusual Turin. It was commissioned as a family tomb by the children of Rosa Vercellana, nicknamed la Bela Rosin - eight columns, an imposing dome. The Bela Rosin was to be buried here, with her husband Vittorio Emanuele II. Rosa Vercellana was in fact the mistress and later also the wife of the first King of Italy. Her remains, together with those of her children, were buried here, but were later moved to the Cimitero Monumentale following several lootings