The areas that surround the city of Torino and are part of its Province have a long history to tell, which has taken the form over time of a very rich and varied heritage of Sanctuaries and Abbeys that allow us to rediscover the spirit of their age. Find out more and plan your next visit now.

  • Aglie Chiesa Tre Cioche.jpeg
    Church

    Su uno splendido punto panoramico, secondo un’antica tradizione, poco distante dalla chiesa attuale, c’era un pilone con un affresco della Madonna; con il tempo il pilone si trasformò i chiesetta. Nel Settecento per accogliere adeguatamente i pellegrini,

    Agliè
  • Campanile Santo Stafano
    Church

    The bell tower is the only remaining evidence of the Romanesque church of the Benedictine monks of the abbey, founded in 1044. From the ’500 the abbey has undergone a gradual demolition which spared only the bell tower. Today the bell tower has a develop

    Ivrea
  • Church

    La cappella si trova ai margini della frazione Foresto di Bussoleno, in un’area detta della Posta, a memoria del fatto che in questo luogo avveniva la sosta ed il cambio dei cavalli e delle carrozze che percorrevano la via Francigena. La cappella presenta

    Bussoleno
  • Andrate   Chiesa S.maria
    Church

    La chiesa, situata su un terrapieno che domina la pianura, è delimitata dai resti di una cinta muraria in pietra di epoca medioevale. L’edificio attuale è frutto di radicali trasformazioni realizzate nel ’700 e nell’’800; dell’impianto romanico resta s

    Andrate
  • Precettoria Ranverso Ordine Mauriziano
    Abbey

    The abbey, together with the annexed 15th century Ospedale della Precettoria (Hospital), is located along the Via Francigena route. It is a typical example of French Gothic influence and houses an important cycle of 15th century paintings by Giacomo Jaque

    Buttigliera Alta
  • Chiesa Melezet
    Church

    E’ situata a 3 km da Bardonecchia nella frazione di Melezet. Cenni storici L’attuale chiesa parrocchiale di S. Antonio Abate fu costruita tra il 1694 e il 1698 in sostituzione di quella originale, risalente al 1487, rimasta danneggiata dall’incendio che c

    Bardonecchia
  • Cantoira Santa Cristina Scorcio
    Sanctuary

    Clinging to a wild cliff that separates the Val d’Ala from the Val Grande, this place, before taking shape over the centuries as a place of Christian worship, was occupied by the earliest inhabitants of the Valleys who erected their heathen idols. The fir

    Cantoira
  • Montebenedetto
    Abbey

    In the early 13th century a community of Carthusian monks settled in a valley sheltered by the Villarfocchiardo mountains, building the Monte Benedetto monastery. The monastic order was founded in 1084 by San Bruno in Chartreuse in France and had been gr

    Villar Focchiardo
  • Chialamberto Santuario Ciavanis
    Sanctuary

    This is highest Sanctuary in the Lanzo Valleys: it is built at 1874m on a grassy terrace from which can be seen all the Val Grande. Its remote location, the presence of canals and cups on some boulders and the many legends about the area all confirm the

    Chialamberto