Piedmont

Visiting the Palace of Venaria

[ Apr.2019 ] The last thing we visited on the day was the Palace of Venaria itself, which is in Piedmont in the north of Italy. The last possible time people could get in was 5:30pm…

Piedmont

The Garden of the Palace of Venaria

[ Apr.2019 ] One of the highlights of the Palace of Venaria in Piedmont in Italy is its garden. It is huge, with 50 hectares of land and there are snowy mountains of the Alps…

Piedmont

Sacra di San Michele Monastery

[ June 2018 ] The monastery called Sacra di San Michele stands magnificently on top of a mountain in Piedmont in Italy. This mountain is called Pirchiriano, with a height of 962 metres. The original…

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Basilica of San Gaudenzio

[ Sept.2015 ] You can find Novara in Piedmont in Italy from far away, because the cupola of the Basilica of San Gaudenzio rises up very high. We thought this must be the centre of…

Piedmont

Unusual Instrument

[ Sept.2015 ] We had a day out to a town called Novara, in Piedmont in Italy. This is a crossroad linking Milan and Turin, and Genoa and Switzerland. On the day we were there,…