Cathedral

A beautiful very characteristic Cathedral impeccably maintained with three naves frescoes and sculptures visit it steals the heart the dynamic and enterprising young parish priest makes masses and sermons very very very well cared for that capture the attention compliments

A cathedral in all respects, historic kept very well with frescoes, paintings and beautiful statues inside is definitely worth visiting

Beautiful Gothic building, an important church for the vocation of San Giovanni Bosco who turns to the Madonna delle Grazie to know the way to go. Here he decides to enter the seminary and become a priest to save the young people he will meet.

Very interesting and rich fourteenth-fifteenth-century cathedral, but the lighting is nothing short of obscene: the naves are always dark, the ceiling decorated in blue is not valued as it should. It would be enough to place, instead of those squalid lamps that point downwards, blinding, to direct the headlights upwards, illuminating the vaults to day, and we could admire a masterpiece.

The cathedral of Chieri, my city. Beautiful and for me full of memories, but honestly a bit neglected and dark, dusty. The walls are covered with plasters of the past centuries, which cover the original Gothic bricks: it would deserve to discover them, but I imagine the huge costs. In any case, the devotion of us Chieresi for the Madonna delle Grazie who saved us from the plague is independent of the church that hosts it !! Do not miss the Baptistery, frescoed and simple in its authentic medieval beauty.

Evocative cathedral, with wonderful colors and wonderful sculptures .. one particularly struck me .. a woman holding a skull in her hand .. Magnificent with the light refracted by the rose window!

Together with that of Asti, it is the most important Gothic cathedral in Piedmont. Actually the current one is not the original building: it is in fact a reconstruction, which took place between 1405 and 1436, of the 11th century Romanesque cathedral erected at the behest of Landolfo, bishop of Turin (the crypt of this building survives , placed under the high altar). What characterizes it more than any other element is the very precious gable that crowns the main portal: it is a very rare testimony of French Gothic transplanted to Italian soil (the decorations with plant motifs are typical of transalpine art). In addition to streamlining the structure it also serves as a chromatic contrast: the white stone with which it is built stands out against the red of the brick masonry of the rest of the church. From the inside with three naves, full of side chapels and remodeled several times (passing from the Baroque to the Neo-Gothic), you can access the wonderful octagonal baptistery, originally erected in the 11th century in Romanesque style and subsequently raised during the construction of the new cathedral. Gothic. The drum band is decorated with stupendous fifteenth-century frescoes, while an apse niche houses an early sixteenth-century altarpiece. Also worth seeing is the Franco-Flemish statue of the Madonna del Melograno from the early 15th century, once placed in the lunette of the main portal of the church and now replaced by a copy.