Sacro Monte di Belmonte: baroque chapels overlooking the Canavese
A little-visited UNESCO heritage site, the Sacro Monte di Belmonte offers baroque chapels, woods and a sweeping view over the Piedmontese plain.
Very quiet Jun 21, 2026The province of Torino (Piedmont) is not very crowded: 2,9 tourist arrivals per inhabitant per year (73th out of 107 Italian provinces, Eurostat data 2023).
A little-visited UNESCO heritage site, the Sacro Monte di Belmonte offers baroque chapels, woods and a sweeping view over the Piedmontese plain.
Very quiet Jun 21, 2026
Just steps from Piazza Castello, Turin's Cavallerizza Reale preserves the Baroque eighteenth-century stables in the silence of its courtyard.
Very quiet Jun 21, 2026
On Monte Pirchiriano, the Sacra di San Michele is reached by the Stairway of the Dead: a thousand-year-old abbey, symbol of Piedmont, in the Val di Susa.
Very quiet Jun 23, 2026
In the Parco del Valentino, Turin's Borgo Medievale recreates an imagined 15th century: courtyards and alleys overlooking the Po, in complete silence.
Very quiet Jun 23, 2026
Behind the gates of the Quadrilatero Romano, in Turin, silent courtyards and Baroque staircases open up a stone's throw from the Mole.
Very quiet Jun 23, 2026