Cycle Route Sinistra Po

From April 1 to September 30: Tuesday to Sunday: 10-13 / 15-18.30

From 1 October to 31 March: Tuesday to Sunday: 10-12.30 / 15-18

Saluzzo (Italian pronunciation: [saˈluttso]) is a town in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont region, Italy.

The city of Saluzzo is built on a hill overlooking a vast, well-cultivated plain. Iron, lead, silver, marble, slate etc. are found in the surrounding mountains. It has a population of approximately 17,000.

Saluzzo is a former principality and has a picturesque old town with castle and high city tower and numerous historic palaces.

Main sights

• ⊙ The Cathedral (1491–1501), in Lombard-Gothic style. The façade is decorated with rose-windows, frescoes (almost totally faded) and statues. The interior contains a magnificent Baroque high altar, plus a 16th-century terracotta group portraying the Deposition, ad Adoration of the Shepherds by Sebastiano Ricci.
• ⊙ The church of St. Bernard, formerly belonging to the Conventuals, has interesting tombs of the counts della Torre.
• ⊙ The Dominican church of San Giovanni, begun in 1330 in Gothic style and completed in 1504 with Bramantesque influences. It has a noteworthy Gothic façade. The apse, from 1504, houses a Funerary Chapel of Ludovico II, work by Antoine Le Moiturier (1425–74) covered with green stone and characterized by an elegant play of arches and sculptures. The sepulchre of Ludovico II is a Renaissance work by Benedetto Briosco. Annexed are the Gothic cloister and the Capitular Hall with the Mausoleum of a vicar-general of the marquisate, Galeazzo Cavassa di Carmagnola, a Renaissance work by Matteo Sanmicheli.
• ⊙ The Casa Cavassa , site of the civic museuam and rebuilt with a typical Renaissance interior. ☎ +39 0175 46710
• The church of ⊙ St. Augustine is also worthy of note.
• ⊙ The present Town hall is the former Jesuit College, while the ⊙ older one (1462), with a bold tower, is utilized by the Court of Assizes. The 16th century Villa Belvedere has elegant rooms with late-Renaissance decorations.
• ⊙ Castello dei Marchesi - La Castiglia

Staffarda Abbey (Santa Maria di Staffarda) is a Cistercian monastery located near Saluzzo in north-west Italy; it was founded as a daughter house of Tiglieto Abbey in 1135 by Manfred I, Marquis of Saluzzo. The abbey became an important local centre for agriculture and held a flourishing market. It was placed in commendam to the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus in 1750.

A portrait of Cesare Alessandro Scaglia di Verrua, abbot of Staffarda, painted by Antony van Dyck in about 1634, is now in the National Gallery in London.

An important musical manuscript, the Codex Staffarda, dating to the 1480s or 1490s and containing reference to the commandatory abbot Brixianus Taparelli, is now in the National University Library of Turin. It includes polyphonic works by Renaissance composers such as Jacob Obrecht and Antoine Brumel, as well as the earliest surviving example of a polyphonic Dies Irae by an otherwise unknown composer, Engarandus Juvenis.

From Tuesday to Sunday:
09:00 to 12:30 (last entry at 12:00)
13:00 to 17:00 (last admission 16:30) - from 01/11 to 28/02
13:00 to 18:00 (last admission 17:30) - from 01/03 to 31/10

Monday: closed