Vercelli the city of water lands

Surrounded by the “water lands”, the rice fields that shape the agricultural landscape around the city according to the seasons, Vercelli combines activities amp; agrave; productive to artistic beauties, merging them into a collection structure where it is pleasant to live, just over an hour's drive from Turin, < Strong>Milan and Genoa. Easy to get there, so Four good reasons for a stop in Vercelli? Here they are:

1) The historic center collects, a short distance from each other, the most important monuments of the city, allowing the visitor to admire them walking quietly through the streets and squares full of ancient beauty;

2) The cathedral preserves a splendid crucifix in silver foil modeled, from medieval times, completely similar to similar works of art preserved in the cathedral of Casale, in that of Milan and in the church of S. Michele Maggiore in Pavia; the building, dedicated to S. Eusebius, patron saint of Vercelli, built towards the end of the sixteenth century on the seat of an ancient basilica, of which only the twelfth century bell tower was preserved, was completed in the Nineteenth century with the dome and the gate;

3) The Basilica of St. Andrew is an authentic masterpiece of Romanesque-Gothic style; built at the beginning of the 13th century, the basilica is one of the first examples of Italian art in which the style imported from France, Gothic, blends in a splendid harmony of forms with the Romanesque style typical of Italy medieval;

4) The synagogue with a characteristic two-tone band façade, built in the late nineteenth century according to Middle Eastern schemes of the Middle Ages, testifies to the important economic, social and artistic presence of the Jewish community in the Piedmont plain, in that territory that has as the most important centers Casale Monferrato, Alessandria and, in fact, Vercelli.