Luxurious Villa in the centre of Saluzzo

Saluzzo: Location and surroundings of this property

Seat of the Monviso Natural Park and capital of the Marquisate, Saluzzo is a small town of great historical and artistic value nestled in the hills in the province of Cuneo and dominated by the Monviso Massif. Saluzzo embraces a vast territory, giving the entrance to the Po Valley in the Province of Cuneo, the valley that leads to the Monviso and the sources of the Po river. A little further south, Saluzzo also gives the entrance to the Val Varaita. From a historical and cultural point of view, Saluzzo represents a typical example of medieval Piedmontese architecture, preserving, in the circuit of the ancient walls, the characteristics of different eras. Capital for four centuries of an independent marquisate, the numerous testimonies of its noble and rich past confirm its role as a city of art. Saluzzo has given birth to many cebrities, including the writer Silvio Pellico and the typographer Giovanni Battista Bodoni, and more recently, General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa. Saluzzo looks like a typically fourteenth-century hilltop village: small cobbled streets, churches and elegant noble palaces with their gardens populate the historic center. Of considerable interest in the inhabited center are the Cathedral, Castile, with the new multimedia installations of the Prison Memory, Casa Cavassa and the Church of San Giovanni, the ancient Monastery of the Annunziata, in the heart of the medieval historic center. Not only architecture, music, museums and even guided walks to discover every suggestive corner of Saluzzo. Villa Bricherasio houses an immense Botanical Garden, a real work of art. Not to be missed is a visit to the birthplace of Silvio Pellico, which has now become a museum.