Chieri keeps a textbook medieval plan — radial streets converging on the cathedral — and the cathedral repays arrival: Santa Maria della Scala is among Piedmont's greatest Gothic churches, its baptistery frescoed. Wealth came from the looms: Chieri fustian dressed half of Europe, and the textile tradition lives again in a dedicated museum.
On the hills, Freisa di Chieri DOC is the local red, as lively as the squares on market days. Turin lies beyond the hill, twenty minutes away: yet Chieri remains a complete small world, with its towers and its Epiphany focaccia recipes.
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