Jewellery
Piedmont also means magnificent jewels, to wear and to treasure.
Rings, ear-rings, brooches, necklaces and many other precious pieces, exquisitely crafted to express beauty and elegance.
From New York to Paris, in the showcases of the very best international jewellers, you will find work from Valenza Po. The most prestigious houses –Bulgari, Cartier, Rolex- have their products made in this quiet town on the banks of the Po River. Valenza Po has no fear of rivals: they know their superb craftsmanship and the originality of their designs cannot be matched. Gold, platinum and other precious metals are the raw materials these jewellery makers turn into delicately beautiful pieces, using techniques that combine the best of traditional and modern methods, while artists constantly research and develop new original designs.
Valenza jewellery is often set with diamonds and other precious stones: in fact, Valenza accounts for 80 per cent of the diamonds and 70 per cent of rubies, sapphires and emeralds imported into Italy.
Jewellery making is one of 25 “industrial areas” in Piedmont. 221 small and medium scale producers have been granted the title “Eccellenza Artigiana” (Excellence in Craftsmanship), as a recognition of their high level of professional expertise and efficiency. Every year 1300 firms with 7000 employees transform 30 tonnes of gold into jewellery, 70 per cent of which is exported.
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Places
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.
La “Bollente” di Acqui Terme
This is an elegant, octagonal temple-structure inaugurated in 1879. This eclectic structure has a spring where sulfuric-salty-bromine-iodic water flows at a temperature of 74.5 degrees Celsius.
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People
Caparezza
“And I love eating in Torino, most of all the raw meat. I like this city. I’ve been to the Museo del Cinema three times and even took a walk up the hill. After a few kilometres I was at the top of Colle della Maddalena and could see the entire city.”
Monica Bellucci
"I love this city to death, architecturally beautiful, the people are friendly without being invasive, and the food is stupendous."
Roberto Faenza
“With its ancient and distressing twilight vice, Torino is the abstract, metaphysical space, the beautiful stranger, aloof and a bit mysterious that I have chosen to bring to the screen for Giorni dell’abbandono based on Elena Ferrante’s novel with the same title.”
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