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Alessandria

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Chiesa di Santa Lucia

The small 18th century church stands in a beautiful location, at the crossroads of several historic streets. Each year, on St. Lucy’s Day (13 December), the church becomes the centre of devotional practices and charit...

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Pontecurone

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Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta

The current building, constructed entirely in brick, dates to the 13th and 14th centuries. The gabled facade, marked by four buttresses, is typical of the Piedmontese and Lombard Gothic style, while the portal, with high...

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Tortona

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Chiesa di Santa Maria Canale

The Church of Santa Maria Canale is the only one in the city to have maintained an ancient Romanesque look, even if modified by numerous renovations. The facade is currently 'gabled’ with corner buttresses and two narrow...

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Alessandria

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Chiesa di Santa Maria del Carmine

The construction of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel began around 1320 and was soon replaced in the second half of the century with another larger building, with the addition of a cloister, by the Carmelite Fathers,...

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Novi Ligure

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Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pieve

This church was built between the 12th and the 13th centuries, at the origins of the settlement that led to the birth of the village. Extensively reconstructed in 1678, it preserves the original layout with three naves, a...

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Sale

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Chiesa di Santa Maria e San Siro

The Church of Santa Maria is first recorded in documents that date from 1165. The double naming bears witness to the fact that there were two separate churches in Sale: San Siro, a fortified church outside the town walls...

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Lu e Cuccaro Monferrato

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Chiesa di Santa Maria Nuova

Built around the 15th century in Romanesque-Gothic style above the preceding church (probably built in the early 11th century) and current crypt which houses the relics of San Valerio. The central portal is in Baroque sty...

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Alessandria

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Chiesa di Santo Stefano

The Church of Santo Stefano (originally SS. Stefano e Martino) is connected to the events of the Order of the Servants of Mary. The Servites, in 1728, were forced to abandon their primitive convent of S. Stefano in Bo...

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Bassignana

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Chiesa di Santo Stefano

The first stone of the current parish church was laid in June 1833, the new church, in Neo-classical style, was completed in 1837. The facade was restructured in 1930. The church is in Neo-classical style and features a L...

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Chiesa di Santo Stefano o Santa Maria di Banno

Sezzadio

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Chiesa di Santo Stefano o Santa Maria di Banno

The first known references of the existence of the church include the particularly significant Papal Bull of Innocent III, dated 16 June 1135, in which Santo Stefano of Sezzadio is among the possessions of the monastery o...

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Chiesa parrocchiale dei Santi Giulitta e Quirico

Cella Monte

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Chiesa parrocchiale dei Santi Giulitta e Quirico

The construction dates back to the early 17th century. The building has three naves, presbytery with vaulted ceiling and cylindrical apse. The facade, in exposed brick, with a single floor with fake balcony, is the work o...

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Vignale Monferrato

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Chiesa parrocchiale di San Bartolomeo

The church we see today was designed by the architect Ottavio Magnocavalli from Casale, after the pre-existing construction was taken down, which was the result of a series of overlappings whose first traces date back to...

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