The wealthy residential quarter west of Porta Nuova, laid out at the end of the nineteenth century on the grid expanded by the Savoy royal architects. Wide tree-lined streets, Belle Époque and Art Nouveau villas, and the city's old aristocracy living quietly behind shuttered windows.
The reason most visitors come to Crocetta is the Sunday flea-and-fruit market on Via Marco Polo, the largest in the city. Otherwise it is a good area for an afternoon walk if you have had enough of the centre: little tourist traffic, generous trees, and an architectural inventory of Turin's most prosperous decades.