The Sesia Valley - Art and Culture
Strong emotions even for art and culture lovers: it is possible to visit San Gaudenzio's Colleghiate Church, the Palace of the Museums with its rich Pinacoteca (art gallery), the Calderini Museum of Natural Science, Cesare Scaglia museum and the Santa Maria delle Grazie Church with the frescoes of the life and Passions of Christ, created by Gaudenzio Ferrari. With the modern cable railway, it is possible to reach Varallo's Sacro Monte, UNESCO property, the oldest in Northern Italy . It is made up of fifty chapels, which represent the Passions and death of Christ with painting and life-like statues, created by great artists such as Gaudenzio Ferrari and Tanzio of Varallo. Numerous are the museums scattered throughout the entire valley, guarding important testimonies of the local culture: among which, the “Della Vedova” gallery of plaster casts in Rima, the permanent puncetto (local type of lace work made of tiny little knots) exhibit in Fobello, the Museum of Sacred Art in Campertogno and the Walser Museum in Alagna. |
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