The patron of Varallo is the Crowned Virgin, and the town's holiday is the Monday after Pentecost: a movable date tied to Easter, falling on a different day each year between late May and early June.
The tradition the people of Varallo feel most lies at the other end of the year: the Carnival, which here runs from Epiphany all the way to Ash Wednesday.
Places to see before or after the feast. All 6 places in Varallo →
Forty-four chapels and eight hundred life-size statues: the great mountain theatre
Gaudenzio Ferrari's wall of 1513: twenty panels and a Crucifixion four times their size
A natural-history museum founded in 1867 for the schools of Varallo, grown by donation into much more.
The wood on the crag that carries the Sacro Monte, protected since 1990 and replanted as a garden.
sacro monte di Varallo · chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie · Museo Calderini and 3 more
18 places to stay · top rated: CA' VARADE di Martina Scarduelli 9.4 · Albergo LA COLDRA 9.4
Festivals, food fairs and events throughout the year.
Nearest airport: Milano Malpensa, 41 km away
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
