Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta e San Gottardo
Asti
The Cathedral of Asti or the so-called Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta and San Gottardo dates back to the 13th century. It was built in 1266 in Romanesque - Lombard style. It is the largest church in Piedmont, and it represents a historical and architectural value in the area of Asti. After the deep restorations it was completed in 1470. Today the building has special decorative architectural elements of Gothic - Piedmontese art. The chapel has a height of 24 m.
Arazzeria "Scassa"
Asti
The “Scassa” tapestry was founded in 1957. It is located in the Charterhouse of Valmanera. Inside it exhibits a wide range of tapestries and a laboratory for the restoration of ancient tapestries. The museum is available to the public. At the gates of Asti monastery built by the Vallombrosan monks and then passed to the Carthusians who inhabited it until the Napoleonic era, abandoned and partly destroyed it was restored and destined to host the Museum. Scassa Tapestries.
Museo Ebraico
Asti
The Jewish Museum of Asti is located in the heart of the city, with its headquarters inside the Synagogue, which was erected in the 18th century. The Museum was established in 1980, to collect and expose Jewish history and culture to the public. It has been hosting a collection of historical documents concerning the life of the Jewish community of Asti since 1300. It is currently open to all interested parties.
Galleria Eidos
Asti
Complesso Monumentale di S. Pietro in Consavia
Asti
The Monumental Complex of St. Peter in Consavia is a Catholic church in Asti, consisting of four buildings dating from the twelfth century to the fourteenth century. Within the monumental complex, the museum preserves an archaeological section that includes materials from the Roman period that constituted the funeral kit of burials of the I, II and III centuries AD; a section Egyptian comprising wooden sarcophagi with related mummies, canopic vases, fragments of hieroglyphic inscriptions and a paleontological section dedicated to fossils of the recent tertiary.
Cripta e Museo di Sant'Anastasio
Asti
The Crypt of Sant'Anastasio is located within the Sant'Anastasio complex, in the municipality of Asti. The building has special decorative architectural elements from the Middle Ages and has columns in Basilical-style. It offers the public an exhibition of the ecclesiastical heritage and also presents the history of sacred art.
Museo Alfieriano
Asti
The Alfierian Museum is located in the house of the poet Vittorio Alfieri. It presents an exhibition of the writer's family heritage with the collections of: furniture, professional tools and a rich documentation on his literary activity. All the furniture in the room is very nice with furniture from the period. The museum is currently open to the public.
Torre Rossa
Asti
The Red Tower or Torre di San Secondo dates back to the 1st century BC. The tower was built in two different periods, in the Roman period and in the eleventh century around the 11th century. It is one of the architectural symbols of the city of Asti, one of its oldest monuments. It stands in Piazza Santa Caterina. It was named so because it was built from red bricks. The building has special architectural and decorative elements of a combination of Romanesque art with the art of the Middle Ages. It is now open to the public.
Torre Natta
Asti
Torre Natta is the heart of the Palazzo di Natta, built in the 11th century. It stands in the municipality of Asti and belongs to the Middle Ages. The building has decorative architectural elements of the time. The tower was built with red bricks in square shape and is located in Piazza Statuto in the Rione San Secondo. In the 17th century the Natta were the owners of the Tower. It is now open to the public.
Torre de Regibus
Asti
The Torre de Regibus or the so-called 'Rotunda' dates back to the 12th century. It was built between the 12th and 14th by the Re or De Regibus family. The building has special architectural elements in Gothic style. The tower has a height of about 27m and an octagonal shape. It is now open to the public.
Torre Solaro
Asti
Torre dei Solaro was born in the fourteenth century. It was built around 1350. It stands in the municipality of Asti, in the homonymous province of Piedmont. The building has decorative architectural elements of Piedmontese art. The tower belonged to the Solaro family. It has a Gothic-Piedmontese style. It is now open to the public.
Torre del Ponte di Lombriasco
Asti
Torre del Ponte di Lombriasco is located near the Church of S. Martino subsequently inserted in the installation of the Baroque palace that still contains it today. This thirteenth-century tower was the ancient residence of the Guelph family of the Ponte. The walls of the building are impressive and reach a height of 8 meters, while, originally, they had to have a height of about 36 meters. Of the medieval buildings, which occupied a large area of the block, today we have few traces.
Torre del Comentini
Asti
Torre del Comentini or called Torre di San Bernardo dates back to the 13th century. A historical and architectural value of the city of Asti. It has a Gothic-Piedmontese style. The Tower has a square plan and a height of about 38.55 m. It has been used for several centuries as a command station for the race of the Palio. The building was rebuilt at the end of the 19th century. It is now open to the public.
Torre dei Guttuari
Asti
The Tower of the Guttuari dates back to the 13th century. It was built between 1225 and 1235. It is located in Piazza Statuto and has seven floors. Over the centuries the Tower was scaled down, after deep restorations dating back to the 19th century.
Complesso di San Pietro
Asti
The San Pietro complex dates back to the twelfth century and is one of the best preserved examples of churches. It has a special structure and very decorated on the walls, doors and roofs. It is a large building with large doors and single doors decorated with terracotta friezes. The purpose of the complex was the reception of pilgrims and travelers. Today it is among the most visited religious places in the city.
Santuario Beata Vergine del Portone
Asti
The church of the Blessed Virgin Shrine dates back to the fourteenth century. It has a large chapel, where at the top is the statue of the Virgin Mary with Child Enthroned. The building was rebuilt in 1509. It has historical and architectural value. It is currently open to the public.
Archivio Storico Comunale
Asti
The Historical Archive is located in the building of Palazzo Mazzola. It is of great value because the oldest and most significant documents are stored there, preserved from the tenth century onwards, and precious medieval codes that demonstrate city life. The Historical Archive of the Municipality of Asti preserves a very rich photo library.
Casa Natale di Vittorio Alfieri
Asti
The Palace that dates back to the Middle Ages is recognized as the accommodation of the family of the poet Vittorio Alfieri at the end of the 17th century. The building was transformed into a museum at the end of the twentieth century, where a civic library was built with the contribution of Count Leonetto Ottolenghi. After the Count gave the palace to the Municipality of Asti, two rooms on the main floor were restored on the initiative of the Municipality and the bust of Vittorio Alfieri was placed in the courtyard.
Pinacoteca Civica
Asti
The Civic Art Gallery of Asti is located, together with the Museum, in the historic Palazzo Mazzetti, which until 1442 had been a strong house owned by the Asti family of the Turco. Since 1940 the Palace has been the seat of the Civic Art Gallery which includes valuable collections. Among the important works, we must remember the tables of San Martino Alfieri dating back to 1400 and 1500, Michelangelo Pittatore, Giancarlo Aliberti, Guglielmo Caccia, and the section dedicated to Genoese painters from 1600. The property also houses a precious collection of antique fabrics.
Palazzo Gazelli di Rossana
Asti
This large ancient palace built in the 13th century contains original and rare furnishings and also special and typical decorations of the time. The frescoes representing city life are also attracting attention. Inside the building there is a single garden, which has a particular historical and botanical interest for the city of Asti.
Palazzo del Seminario
Asti
The Palazzo del Seminario in Asti is a Baroque building, home to Asti ecclesiastical studies. In the seminary there are some paintings of particular importance from the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries including a “Nativity with Saints Bartolomew and Benedict”, the work of Gandolfino da Roreto of the 16th century. , an “Adoration of the Magi” by Jacobino and Giovanni Longo dated 1517 and the “Portrait of Mons. Luigi Garberoglio” by Michelangelo Pittatore of 1896.
Palazzo dei Leoni
Asti
The Palazzo dei Leoni, also called Paraty, is one of the oldest buildings in the city, dating back to the Middle Ages. It was home to the Alfieri family for many years. Even today it keeps its base intact: a basement room used as a warehouse for merchants who came from outside the city.
Torre Trojana
Asti
The Troyana tower overlooks Piazza Medici and is considered one of the most impressive medieval towers, perfectly accomplished and best preserved in Piedmont. Built by the Cortesi family between the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the 13th century, in 1250 it became the property of the Troia, who demolished the adjoining Palazzo Cortesi to build their new home, keeping intact the tower. Inside, a 199 steps staircase allows the visitor to reach the floor of the battlements. The recently restored Troyana tower is open to the public.
Palazzo del Comune
Asti
The Palazzo del Comune has a historical and architectural value for the city of Asti. It was donated in 1558 by Duke of Asti Emanuele Filiberto. It has a Baroque style and belongs to the Middle Ages. It was renovated and expanded in the 18th century by the architect Benedetto Alfieri. The Palace is the seat of the city council of the city of Asti and the mayor's offices. Over the centuries it has hosted important people from the city of Asti.
Corso Vittorio Alfieri
Asti
here we can admire the Torre Comentina; the building that houses the Museum of the Risorgimento and the Municipal Art Gallery, the De Regibus tower,the Alfieri palace and the Red Tower,evidence of the imperial period,now transformed into a bell tower
Battistero di San Pietro
Asti
Called the Rotunda, built in the eleventh century and then transformed into an octagonal Baptistery in 1280.
Chiesa di San Secondo
Asti
A Romanesque – Gothic example, built between the thirteenth and fifteenth century on an earlier church, which keeps inside the remains of frescoes of the fifteenth century.
Chiesa Romanica di Santa Maria
Chiusano d'Asti
(5058 Km)
Site history:
The Romanesque church of S. Maria appears in the register of the Asti churches of 1345, but its construction is certainly about a century earlier. It had an adjoining cemetery but, already in 1585, the pastoral visit report notes its distance from the concentric that had formed and attested in a higher position, defining it as a "country church". Partially restored in 2002, but now in a state of neglect.
Site description:
The façade with an anachronistic Baroque oculus and a rusty gate to replace a door, stolen long ago, as well as the badly plastered north and south sides, show that at the end of the seventeenth century the building was practically rebuilt by reusing the original bricks with much approximation and with the addition of buttresses. The interior is in a state of total abandonment but still contains the panel relating to the static consolidation of 2002 which was limited to the refurbishment of the roof.
The 1693 fresco inside the apse is probably irrecoverable but apparently modestly made.
The only original part is the lower half of the apse, while the upper part, particularly clumsy and disproportionate, shows that it has undergone the
Chiesa Parrocchiale Madonna del Carmine
Chiusano d'Asti
(5058 Km)
The parish church, dedicated to the Madonna del Carmine, is attested in documents starting from the end of the sixteenth century. It was subject to alterations and extensions in the seventeenth century and in the second half of the eighteenth century, when it assumed its present form based on a design by the Turin architect Giovanni Battista Pagano. The elegant late Baroque façade, plastered in white, is characterized by a large elliptical oculus, a half-height horizontal frame and an entablature dominated by the triangular tympanum.
Inside, with a single nave with four side chapels, valuable eighteenth-century furnishings, a baptismal font and contemporary murals are preserved. Two large canvases, from the eighteenth century, but restored in the nineteenth century, depict the Madonna and Child with saints. Behind the main altar there is a painting of the Black Madonna of the Shrine of Guadalupe, brought from New Mexico in 1752 by Giovanni Battista Codiga, who had made his fortune overseas.
Chiesa parrocchiale di San Martino
Castagnole Monferrato
(10 Km)
Il Castello
Castagnole Monferrato
(10 Km)
Castello di Castellero trasformato
Castellero
(11 Km)
The castle of Castellero is located in the Province of Asti. The fortress was built in 1312 on the rubble of the previous structure, so it is a reconstruction in reality. Its name means 'castle wrecked'. Today, there are few traces of the old building, such as the windows, the moat and the base of the tower. Many additional interventions to the structure bear the name of the Ponte family. The tower, at its origins, had the shape of a rhombus and was about 30 meters high.