Lombardia
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
Nine hillside pilgrimage routes in Piedmont and Lombardy pack chapels with life-size terracotta figures and frescoes, built as…
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Lazio
Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo (1552): Vicino Orsini’s Park of the Monsters — 17 Colossal Peperino Sculptures in the Wood that Inspired the Surrealists and Still Has No Explanation (Viterbo)
Vicino Orsini costruì tra i castagni del Cimino diciassette sculture di mostri colossali in peperino vulcanico — un…
Piemonte
Sacro Monte Calvario di Domodossola
Quindici cappelle seicentesche con statue in terracotta salgono il colle sopra Domodossola: un percorso devozionale iscritto tra i…
Piemonte
Sacro Monte di Belmonte
The smallest and most recently founded of the nine Sacri Monti of Piedmont, Belmonte pairs five Rosary chapels…
Piemonte
Sacro Monte di Crea
Il Sacro Monte di Crea (UNESCO 2003, rif. 1068) è il più antico dei 9 Sacri Monti piemontesi…
Piemonte
Sacro Monte di Ghiffa
Three chapels and a still-unpaved chestnut wood above Lago Maggiore: the smallest of the nine UNESCO-listed Sacri Monti…
Piemonte
Sacro Monte di Oropa
Above Biella, the Sacro Monte di Oropa pairs a venerated Black Madonna with Filippo Juvara's dome and twenty…
Piemonte
Sacro Monte di Orta — 20 cappelle San Francesco
Twenty terracotta chapels set in a wooded hillside above Lake Orta retell the life of St Francis of…
Piemonte
Sacro Monte di Orta San Giulio
Twenty chapels of painted terracotta figures climb a hill above Lake Orta, telling the life of St Francis…
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