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Things to see in Pinerolo
In Pinerolo the atlas lists 14 historic places: 10 museums, 2 historic villas and palaces, 1 abbey or monastery and 1 historic theatre.
Of these, 7 list opening hours.
Don’t miss: Museo storico dell'Arma di cavalleria (1968), museum in Italy.
By date of construction, the most common period is the Modern era (67% of dated places) and the Middle Ages (33% of dated places).
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The town
Pinerolo is a town of 36,000 people (2015) in Piedmont on the river Chisone.
The oldest part of the town stands on the slopes of the hill of San Maurizio, where the remains of the Citadel (445 m) are located, while to the south and east, on the plain, the modern residential and industrial districts have developed, up to the course of the Lemina and beyond. Even today it is possible to identify the layout of the walls, of ancient origin and reinforced several times until the intervention of Vauban in 1670.
Pinerolo was first mentioned an imperial diplom dating from 981, by which Otto II confirmed its possession, within the March of Turin, to the Bishops of Turin.
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14 places
Museums 10
Civico museo didattico di scienze naturali "Mario Strani" Diocesan Museum of Pinerolo Museo etnografico di Pinerolo Museo storico del mutuo soccorso Centro studi e museo d'arte preistorica (Pinerolo, Italy) Museo Civico di Arte Preistorica Ecomuseo della Carbonaia Associazione culturale En plein air
Villas and palaces 2
Abbeys and monasteries 1
Historic theatres 1
Getting there
It is 40 km southwest of Turin.
The Turin-Pinerolo railway line has the Pinerolo station and the Pinerolo Olimpica stop.
Pinerolo is connected to Turin by a motorway, the A55 or Pinerolese motorway, and by the provincial road 23 of Colle del Sestriere and the state road 589 of the Avigliana Lakes, which, passing alongside Pinerolo, continues to Cuneo.
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What to see, according to Wikivoyage
Pinerolo Cathedral (Duomo di Pinerolo, Cathedral of St. Donatus). A 9th-century Roman Catholic church with a Romanesque bell tower and a Gothic façade (restored after the 1808 earthquake). Inside, it preserves Gothic holy water stoups and the choir, a pulpit and a wooden lectern, carved in the 17th century. The bell tower, dating back to 1425, was a Civic Tower in the Middle Ages; it remained unfinished.
Galup factory, which is famous for the local sweets and cake
Historic Museum of Mutual Help (Museo Storico del Mutuo Soccorso). The first society of mutual help was founded in Pinerolo in 1848. Today, it is still active and also hosts a museum, with historic archives and a library.
Historical Museum of the Cavalry (Museo storico dell'Arma di cavalleria). One of the most important museums in Europe dedicated to the cavalry.
Piazza Vittorio Veneto (better known as "Piazza Fontana"): is the central meeting point of the Pinerolo people; designed in 1738, it was built by levelling the ditches in front of the seventeenth-century walls. This vast area was the town's parade ground until 1830, one of the largest in Italy; today it is home to the weekly markets (Wednesday and Saturday).
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