Abbazia di Novalesa
Founded in the year 726 by Cistercian monks, the abbey is one of the most important historical and artistic testaments of the Western Alps. The frescoes in the chapel of Sant’Eldrado date back to the 11th century and still surprise the visitor today with...
Abbazia di Sant'Antonio di Ranverso (Buttigliera Alta)
The abbey, along the Via Francigena between Rivoli and Avigliana at the entrance to the Val di Susa, is one of the most important monuments of international Gothic. The extraordinary frescoes by Giacomo Jaquerio, which decorated the abbey’s interior and...
Abbazia di Staffarda (Revello)
The complex, founded during the first half of the 12th century by Cistercian monks, includes a church with an elegant twin-columned cloister, monastic buildings (the guestrooms, the dining hall, and the capitulary hall are noteworthy), and nine farmsteads.
Abbazia di Vezzolano (Albugnano)
In a small valley in the area of Asti, among soft hills covered in grapevines, one can visit the most important Romanesque monument in Piemonte. The abbey has a façade decorated with capitals and statues and has a beautiful main entrance in bas relief.
Forte di Exilles Elevator (Exilles)
The modern elevator dug into the rock, inaugurated in October 2011, opened to all visitors one of the most inaccessible fortresses of the alpine chain, which currently hosts a section of the Museo Nazionale della Montagna (national museum of the mountain) and a part of the Museo Olimpico Torino 2006 (Olympic Museum Turin 2006).
Basilica di Superga (Torino)
The basilica was designed by the Mexican architect, Filippo Juvarra, and was conceived as a mausoleum for the House of Savoy. Classically inspired, it has a large staircase that leads to the pronaos, topped by a dome. There are two lovely bell towers on each...
Broletto (Novara)
The Broletto today represents, for Novara, one of the central places of the city’s history and identity, in addition to being a place of passing through, location for exhibitions, events, performances and of civic identity.
Castello di Racconigi
Extant mid-Seventeenth-Century documents bear witness to the transformation of Racconigi’s Medieval fortress into a royal residence, on order of the Princes of Carignano (a minor branch of the Savoy). The façade facing the park is attributed to architect ...
Castello di Rivoli
The castle, which has been in Savoy ownership since the 14th century and which was fundamental because of its strategic position on the road to France, was transformed into a residence during several designing phases in the 16th and 17th centuries...
Edicola e piazza della Bollente (Acqui Terme)
The Bollente is an elegant octagonal-shaped little temple-building inaugurated in 1879 in the square of the same name. This eclectic structure shows a thermal spring that spurts out sulphureous-salty-bromine-iodic water at a temperature of 74.5 degrees Celsius.
Forte di Exilles
The Fort is a “Museo di se stesso” (“Museum in itself”) and houses part of the military collection from the Museo della Montagne (Museum of the Mountain) in Torino such as the military uniforms of alpine troops, not to mention sketches, maps, ...
Lingotto (Torino)
The Fiat plant, inaugurated in 1923 as a new futuristic structure, was the focus of a radical architectural transformation at the end of the 20th century. When the factories were moved and closed, the entire Lingotto area was redesigned by the architect Renzo Piano.
OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni
The OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni – is a masterpiece of survived industrial architecture in the heart of Torino. It faces the Spina Centrale Avenue, an area subject to major urban transformation due to the expansion of the so-called citadel of the Polytechnic of Torino...
PalaIsozaki (Torino)
A 5 metres base in reinforced concrete supports a volume of 183 metres by 100, and 7000 tons in weight, with a seating capacity of over 12.300. This is the new Palasport Olimpico of Torino commissioned to Arata Isozaki for the 2006 Torino Winter Olympic Games.
Palavela (Torino)
The Palavela was originally designed by architects Annibale and Giorgio Rigotti for the “Italia 61” exposition, on the occasion of the first centenary of the unification of Italy. The restoration works commissioned by the Città di Torino to Gae Aulenti took place ...
Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi (Nichelino)
Commissioned by Vittorio Amedeo II in 1729 to the First Royal Architect Filippo Juvarra as a hunting pavilion, to be erected on grounds which the Savoy had purchased as early as 1564, the Palace is a characteristic landmark.
Palazzina La Fleur (Torino)
Torino became, between the end of the ‘800’s and the beginning of the ‘900’s, the capital of the Art Nouveau style – better known in Italy as the Liberty style. One of its exponents was the engineer, Pietro Fenoglio, who designed hundreds of buildings...
Palazzo Alfieri (Asti)
The palazzo is an interesting example of a patrician home. Built at the end of the 17th century, it was modified around the mid 18th century by Benedetto Alfieri, following the Rococo taste of its owners, with frescos and ornamentation embellishing the interior.
Palazzo Barolo (Torino)
The palazzo is an interesting example of a patrician home. Built at the end of the 17th century, it was modified around the mid 18th century by Benedetto Alfieri, following the Rococo taste of its owners, with frescos and ornamentation embellishing the interior.
Giardini dell'Isola Bella (Stresa)
This huge Baroque garden in the Italian style is one of the best preserved in Italy. Laid-out in ten descending terraces, it is embellished with ponds, fountains, architectural perspectives, and a multitude of statues dating back to the second half of the 17th century.
Palazzo Graneri della Roccia (Torino)
This palace was commissioned by Abbot Graneri and built at the end of the sixteen hundreds, using stone from Gassino, by architect Gianfrancesco Baroncelli. Palazzo Graneri della Roccia was for a long time the seat of the French Ambassador...
Palazzo Lascaris (Torino)
Count Giovanni Battista Beggiami charged entrepreneur Domenico Bernardi with the building of Palazzo Lascaris, which was built between 1663 and 1665 following what probably was a design by Amedeo di Castellamonte.
Palazzo Madama (Torino)
The Medieval fortified home, which included the Roman Porta Pretoria, was enlarged during the 14th and 15th centuries by the Acaja family. In the 17th century the building, still connected to the current Palazzo Reale through a long wing used as a gallery, ...
Reggia di Venaria
The building of this hunting palace, which started in 1659 at the wish of Carlo Emanuele II di Savoia and followed the project of the Duchy’s architect Amedeo di Castellamonte, completed the so-called ‘The Crown of Delights’ project: a network of royal residences ...
Sacra di San Michele (Sant'Ambrogio di Torino)
The Sacra di San Michele, built between 983 and 987, is among the most famous Benedictine abbeys and is considered today among the best architectural complexes in Europe from the Romanesque period. Since 1994, through regional laws, it has become...
Sacro Monte di Varallo
More than six hundred human-scale statues and about six thousand other figures of men, women, and children; a city of faith, a fortress of the Catholic Church and its principles built during the heyday of the Counter-Reformation to counter the spread of Protestantism –...
Tenuta Reale di Pollenzo (Bra)
A route to good wine.
It was Carlo Alberto who perceived the potential of the land at Pollenzo, transforming it into a true and functioning agricultural enterprise, including vines and cellars where the oenologist Paolo Francesco Staglieno was charged with experimenting on new winemaking techniques using Nebbiolo grapes.
