Biella is certainly a city dedicated to production and commerce, thanks above all to the presence of important textile companies, but it is also a city with a tourist vocation, which knows how to reserve interesting surprises for the visitor. Four good reasons to stop in Biella?

1) First of all to visit one (or more) of the outlets of the large textile companies in the area, where it is it is possible to buy branded garments at affordable prices; between one purchase and another, why not visit the beer museum adjacent to the Menabrea plant, one of the most ancient Italian breweries, where is it also obviously possible to taste the famous products of the company? ;

2) After shopping, you can walk the streets of the city center, to admire the Gothic cathedral of the early fifteenth century dedicated to S. Maria Maggiore and S. Stefano, the splendid baptistery of the tenth century created by recovering the pre-existing material of Roman origin, and the pretty Romanesque bell tower, all of it ograve; which remains of the demolished church of S. Stefano; also worth a stop is the sixteenth-century church of S. Sebastiano that houses the tombs of the illustrious family of the Marquises della Marmora, authentic symbol of the events of our Risorgimento;

3) You can then climb to the upper city, on foot for the less lazy or with the nice funicular, for admire the medieval village of Piazzo, with the arcades of Piazza Cisterna and the splendid view of Piazza Cucco, which spans over the wooded area of the Burcina park;
4) Finally, it is worth visiting the Museum of the Territory that contains the artistic heritage of Biella and, if the time It allows us to travel one of the itineraries of the Biella Ecomuseum, for example the “wool road” in search of the ancient wool mills in the area.