Piedmont - Finestre sull'Arte

Valsesia, twelve Art Trails tell centuries of alpine devotion

Valsesia is not only the land of great mountaineering ascents to the peaks of Monte Rosa or the home of the monumental complex of Sacro Monte di Varallo. There is a widespread network of less celebrated but equally valuable trails that wind through t...
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Rima and the Walser heritage: among the peaks of Upper Valsesia beats the heart of artificial marble

Rima, a small mountain town now part of the municipality of Alto Sermenza, in the province of Vercelli, represents one of the most characteristic historic nuclei of Upper Valsesia. Situated at 1,417 meters above sea level in a green basin at the foot...
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Rassa, a village of art and history among the valleys of Valsesia

One of the most authentic villages in Piedmont's Alpine territory: one could sum up with these words the soul of Rassa, a small village in the heart of Valsesia, located at the confluence of the Gronda and Sorba streams, which give their names to the...
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Varallo and Rive, street art transforms Vercelli villages into open-air museums

In recent years, the Piedmont cultural scene has seen the phenomenon of Street Art consolidate in the Province of Vercelli thanks to two distinct but complementary initiatives: Waral - Urban Art Project and DeRive - Public Art in Rural Space. Both pr...
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MUVV, the Vercelli and Varallo network to enhance a museum heritage of excellence

The cultural landscape of the Piedmont region has seen in recent years the consolidation of a strategic project called MUVV, an acronym that identifies the network of Vercelli and Varallo Museums. This initiative stems from the need to structure a mu...
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St. Mary of Vezzolano, the abbey that has escaped time

As soon as you go up to the Belvedere of Albugnano, a village of five hundred inhabitants announced by the vineyards that, having finished the Turin hinterland, rise from Chieri to the bald hillocks of the Basso Monferrato, a sign explains that this ...
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An exhibition in Casale Monferrato dedicated to Pietro Francesco Guala, portraitist and painter between the sacred and the profane

From Sept. 6, 2025, to Jan. 6, 2026, the Bistolfi Civic Museum and Plaster Collection in Casale Monferrato is hosting the exhibition Pietro Francesco Guala, portraitist and painter between the sacred and the profane. From the Portraits of the Marquis...
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Varallo, restoration of Gaudenzio Ferrari's famous and spectacular Tramezzo kicks off

The restoration of the Stories of the Passion by Gaudenzio Ferrari (Valduggia, c. 1475 - Milan, 1546), one of the absolute masterpieces of the Piedmontese Renaissance, housed in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, has officially begun in Varallo ...
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