Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Ivrea, Italy
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2.7 km
83 m
Explore Ivrea in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Sight 1: Santuario della Madonna della Stella
The sanctuary of Monte Stella in Ivrea is one of the places of historical and artistic interest in the Piedmontese town. A few steps from the crowded fruit and vegetable market square, the stations of a nineteenth-century Via Crucis wind along the slope of a morainic hill, in a forest of plane trees and hackberry trees, leading up to the sanctuary of the Madonna della Stella, better known to the people of Eporedia as the sanctuary of Monte Stella.
Sight 2: Museo Civico Pier Alessandro Garda
Sight 3: Chiesa di Santa Croce
The church of Santa Croce in Ivrea belongs to the confraternity of the same name, already founded in 1616 as the Confraternity of Suffrage. Built starting in 1623 and dedicated to the "Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary", the church preserves various works of art, starting with the cycle of frescoes created by Luca Rossetti da Orta.
Sight 4: Palazzo della Credenza
The Palazzo della Credenza is a historic building located in Ivrea, Italy.
Sight 5: Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
The cathedral of Ivrea, dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta, stands on a hill, in the old part of the city, a stone's throw from the Castle with red towers and the Palazzo del Vescovado, to which it is connected by a covered walkway. Its more than thousand-year history is testified by the preserved parts of its Romanesque structures and by the series of subsequent interventions that have changed its physiognomy, gradually adapting it to the emerging aesthetic tastes of Baroque and Neoclassicism.
Sight 6: Chiesa di San Nicola da Tolentino
The church of San Nicola da Tolentinò, in Ivrea, in Piedmont, is located near the Duomo, erected in 1605 by the homonymous confraternity. The construction has multiple elements of artistic interest.
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