Sacro Monte di Crea
Il Sacro Monte di Crea (UNESCO 2003, rif. 1068) è il più antico dei 9 Sacri Monti piemontesi…
Il Sacro Monte di Crea (UNESCO 2003, rif. 1068) è il più antico dei 9 Sacri Monti piemontesi…
Three chapels and a still-unpaved chestnut wood above Lago Maggiore: the smallest of the nine UNESCO-listed Sacri Monti…
Above Biella, the Sacro Monte di Oropa pairs a venerated Black Madonna with Filippo Juvara's dome and twenty…
Twenty terracotta chapels set in a wooded hillside above Lake Orta retell the life of St Francis of…
Twenty chapels of painted terracotta figures climb a hill above Lake Orta, telling the life of St Francis…
The Sacro Monte di Orta occupies a wooded promontory above the Lago d'Orta — Italy's most romantic lake,…
A hillside above Varallo holds forty-five chapels of life-size statues and Gaudenzio Ferrari frescoes, built from 1493 as…
In 1491 a Franciscan friar, Bernardino Caimi (who had lived in Jerusalem for several years), obtained permission to…
A UNESCO World Heritage sanctuary dedicated to the Black Madonna, Oropa is one of Western Europe's oldest Marian…
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