Tours
Canavese Castles
Trips by car
Take either the Turin-Aosta motorway or the Turin-Milan motorway via the Santhià link road to Ivrea. From there, take the main road in the direction of Castellamonte. Turn off at Baldissero Canavese to arrive at Bairo and Agliè. Take the road in the direction of Ozegna and Rivarolo and at Ozegna take the road for S. Giorgio Canavese. From San Giorgio, a small road crosses at Montalenghe and Candia for the Candia lake.
Continue along the road for Vische and Moncrivello until the Cigliano-Ivrea road. From here, Borgomasino is within a few kilometres.
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Places
Sacro Monte di Crea
Built at the end of the 1500’s, the Sacro Monte di Crea has 23 chapels and 5 hermitages scattered throughout the woods and connected to each other by paths. The chapels narrate the life of the Virgin Mary and house extraordinary life-size statuary groups.
Abbazia di Novalesa
Near the monastery, there are four chapels dedicated to Saint Mary, Saint Salvador, Saint Michael, and the most important one to Saint Eldrado which has two splendid fresco cycles (from the late 11th century) narrating moments from the lives of Saint Eldrado and Saint Nicholas.
Historical Wine Cellars in Canelli
The wine cellars – which hold ancient barrels perfectly lined-up – have brick arches, lowered large round arches connected to each other by tunnels that reach into the layers and strata of earth which have formed over the centuries.
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People
Patty Smith
"Torino is a distinct city, with a lot of character. It’s not like Firenze or other Italian cities that overwhelm you, where you’re overcome by tourists. It is a city that has a very precise personality, a style, a soul."
Giorgio Faletti
"Until I reached a certain age, I thought that people from Asti were called abstemious and so when anyone asked where I was from, I calmly answered: “Abstemious’."
Irene Grandi
“Torino is a fascinating place, filled with things to do, artistic and cultural movement…there’s always a show or a concert going on in some piazza. If only Florence was like this…”
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