History Piedmont

alessandria

Well grounded town in the Middle Ages, in a place importing some Monferrato from the strategic and military, point of view under the last hills. Today it is an industrial, shopping and agricultural important center. He partly preserved the appearance of a medieval piazzaforte, with low and surrounded by walls homes. The old city centre is rich of beautiful churches baroque and palaces and between his streets we can visit S. Maria church of Castle, S. Maria church some small Poems small, the cathedral, the palace of the Prefecture, the palace of the Council, the civic picture-gallery and the citadel.

asti

On the left shore of the river Tanaro rises this blooming town, province of Piedmont chief town. Resentments is certainly famous for his production of pregious wines and homonymous sparkling wine. Several are the historical testimonies, what her cathedral dedicating to the Hired, the church of S. Giovanni, the crypt of S. Anastasio, S. Second, church, S. Pietro Baptistery and S. Pietro church in Consavia. Other interesting buildings are Standard Bearers Palace where a Museum and the Center have place of business National of Studies Alfieriani, the Roman Tower, palace Pretty that lodges the Civic Picture-gallery and the Museum of the Revival, the Museum Archaeological that has his seat in the old Hospital of the Pilgrims and the Trojan Tower.

biella

Since last century Biella was note to be a blooming center of the manufacturing of the wool, activity that to everything today is in growing I develop, I endorse the numerous ones and importing industries of the sector. The town is divided in two zones, that flat dictates Biella Piano and that in hill dictates Biella Piazzo. Several are artistic testimonies to see as the Cathedral, the Baptistery, the house of the Teccio, the palace Groma of Ternengo and Villa Saddle that rises indoors of the park of the Hill of San Gerolamo, and that lodges the Photograph Museum. Between him other monuments of cult mention the church of the SS. Trinity, the church of S. Giacomo, that of S. Sebastiano and S. Gerolamo church.

cuneo

Small fort ancients surrounded by impressive walls, Cuneo preserved the regular map of a military town. Undergone sieges during his history have buildings away by almost destroyed all the medieval buildings, except the church that lodges the Civic Museum and few other.

novara

Novara owes the name, the urban plant to chessboard, and the his first prosperity as shopping center to Romans. Common free during the Middle Ages, the town has right away the occupations of Frenches, Spanishes and Austrians to then come to the Savoy in the 1738. The old city centre has a nineteenth-century typical mark, with beautiful gentlemanly pretty palaces pretty and buildings neo-classical, which one mix testimonies more ancient, as the Baptistery and the palace than the Broletto to.

turin

Turin, chief town of province and the area, he is among the Italian principal towns. Was Roman colony from the the sec. a.C. With the name August Taurinorum. In the 568 town longobard and afterwards of the Francs (774) then became. About to half of the sec. X. Torino was conceded at Federico the Barbarossa, but it rebeled right away again standing him later common free Savoy (1255). She got back so under the hegemony of Savoy and the history some town identifies ever since with the history some Savoy. From 1861 at 1865 Turin was the capital one of the new kingdom of Italy. Industrialist changed then in an important pole and some Resistance saw the birth of a working strong movement and the valiant struggle of courageous protagonists. Elegant and gentlemanly, Turin joins some urban - layout of his from the very long, wide and planted with trees avenues that intersect right-angled - pretty one to run after each other of the porches, the now baroque, now nineteenth-century, refined appearance of his palaces harmoniously to the severe geometry.

verbania

Rich of gardens and splendid villas, the town is the bigger core urban please that to appear at the Greater lake. Verbania succeeded in the years to combine the industrial growth to a turist and hotel remarkable activity. The natural wonderful position, appeared at the gulf Borromeo, to the slopes of the Red Mountain, did from the end of the '700 one of the turist goals more elegant of the area, dotted of parks very painstaking as that of Villa Taranto.

vercelli

Igo out in very ancient epoch, the town of the rice is one some capital artistic of Piedmont. Founded you give Celti, wipe subsequently Romans, the medieval Vercelli knew his maximum prosperity in the sec. XIII, when one started building the basilica of S. Andrea. After a few centuries of Viscounts', plus times besieged by Frenches, dominion Vercelli came to the Savoy in the 1713. The centuries between the' 700 and l'' 800 they were for the town a second moment of brightness, which palaces of the old city centre hired that baroque precious face in that still he marks them; among remarkable many buildings, a neo-classical elegant palace lodges the picture-gallery of the Museum Burgundy.