What to see · Varallo

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Varallo: 3 places to start with

1. 1 Churches Sacro monte di Varallo Forty-four chapels and eight hundred life-size statues: the great mountain theatre
2. 2 Churches Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie Gaudenzio Ferrari's wall of 1513: twenty panels and a Crucifixion four times their size
3. 3 Museums Museo Calderini A natural-history museum founded in 1867 for the schools of Varallo, grown by donation into much more.

6 places covered in Varallo Grouped by type, most important first.

Churches and places of worship

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Sacro monte di Varallo ★

Forty-four chapels and eight hundred life-size statues: the great mountain theatre

Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie ★

Gaudenzio Ferrari's wall of 1513: twenty panels and a Crucifixion four times their size

Collegiata di San Gaudenzio

A loggia of twenty-eight arches rings it, and the apse holds a Gaudenzio Ferrari polyptych

Museums, theatres and collections

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Museo Calderini ★

A natural-history museum founded in 1867 for the schools of Varallo, grown by donation into much more.

Nature and viewpoints

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Riserva speciale del Sacro Monte di Varallo

The wood on the crag that carries the Sacro Monte, protected since 1990 and replanted as a garden.

Castles, palaces and villas

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Palazzo dei musei di Varallo

One building, two museums: the Valsesia picture gallery and the collections of the Calderini.