What to See in Varallo: Attractions & Sights

Only those on the map

Places 6

sacro monte di Varallo Churches
Forty-four chapels and eight hundred life-size statues: the great mountain theatre
chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie Churches
Gaudenzio Ferrari's wall of 1513: twenty panels and a Crucifixion four times their size
Museo Calderini Museums
A natural-history museum founded in 1867 for the schools of Varallo, grown by donation into much more.
riserva speciale del Sacro Monte di Varallo Nature
The wood on the crag that carries the Sacro Monte, protected since 1990 and replanted as a garden.
collegiata di San Gaudenzio Churches
A loggia of twenty-eight arches rings it, and the apse holds a Gaudenzio Ferrari polyptych
palazzo dei musei di Varallo Castles
One building, two museums: the Valsesia picture gallery and the collections of the Calderini.