Tag: Culture
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Milan City Centre
Milan is the closest big city to Paruzzaro. The city boasts many popular tourist attractions, such as the Milan Cathedral and Piazza del Duomo, the Teatro alla Scala, the San Siro Stadium, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the Castello Sforzesco, the Pinacoteca di Brera, the Via Montenapoleone, the Basilica di Sant’Ambrogio, the Navigli and the Brera district. The Milan Cathedral is the city’s most popular tourist destination. Milan…
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Varallo – Museum and Monastery
Built from the end of the 15th century onwards, the magnificent Varallan complex mainly comprises about forty chapels, all frescoed and decorated with polychrome statues, and a grandiose Marian shrine overlooking a piazza-garden of great beauty. Initially founded as a reproduction of the Christian sites of the Holy Land, it was later transformed into a…
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Sacromonte
The Sacro Monte di Orta is a spiritual and cultural site of great beauty, situated on a hill overlooking the village of Orta San Giulio and Lake Orta. This monumental complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, consists of 20 chapels set in a natural park, built between the 16th and 18th centuries. Each chapel is…