The Cammino di Oropa crosses the Piedmont plain and rises into the Biellese Alps, ending at one of northern Italy’s major Marian sanctuaries.
Pilgrims arrive to the Oropa Sanctuary faber1893 - Shutterstock
Mécoulin from the Italian Alps Bessapics - Shutterstock
Two sweet breads from the Aosta Valley—the Micooula and the Mecoulin—keep Alpine traditions alive: ancestral recipes, community, and flavor stand in the face of modernity.
Pier Giorgio Frassati was canonized in St. Peter's on September 7, 2025 Marco Iacobucci Epp - Shutterstock
Portrait of Pier Giorgio Frassati, the “modern pilgrim” who united faith, mountain and service: from the peaks of Oropa to the streets of Turin, a life in motion.
The old and new church in Brughiera Di Viaggiamocela - Opera propria, CC BY-SA 4.0
Andorno’s Sanctuary & Sacred Mount: grotto of the Baptist with healing waters, Vittone’s Baroque church, hermit chapels, the 1764 “Campanun,” and the historic road–tunnel link to Oropa
The old and new church in Brughiera Di Viaggiamocela - Opera propria, CC BY-SA 4.0
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Brughiera near Trivero blends faith, legend, and art: Marian apparition, Baroque frescoes, the “Battle of the Gunshots,” and a 19th-century Via Crucis.
Santo Stefano di Sessano church By Laurom - Own work, Pubic domain
The 11th-century Church of Santo Stefano in Chiaverano unites Romanesque art, Ottonian frescoes, and the memory of Sessano, a vanished village along the Via Francigena
Interior of the Ivrea Cathedral Clara Bonitti - Shutterstock
Ivrea Cathedral blends history and art: from its Roman origins and Warmondo’s Romanesque crypt to Baroque splendor and a Palladian Neoclassical façade
Damanhur Temples TinoFotografie - Shutterstock
Near Turin, Damanhur’s Temples of Humanity form a record-holding underground art complex (Guinness 2001) within a 1979 eco-community—spirituality, creativity, and controversy
Church of St Dalmazzo Di Mamertino81 - Opera propria, CC BY-SA 4.0
Built in 1810, the Church of San Dalmazzo in Cuorgnè blends neoclassical elegance with sacred art, featuring works by Comandù, Fava, and Vegezzi Bossi in a Latin-cross interior of deep…