Religious Heritage

Santa Maria Church

The church, located on an embarkment that dominates the plane, is delimited by the remains of a Medieval era stone city wall. The current building is the result of radical transformations completed in the 18th and 19th Centuries; only a portion of the inside wall remains of the Romanesque building, presenting a fragment of a fresco from the 15th Century representing the Virgin Mary and Saint Caterina. Intact in its Romanesque forms instead is the beautiful bell …

Santa Maria Maddalena Church

The church rises on a rock outcropping of Serra d’Ivrea, close to the community in the Burolo municipality with the same name. The structure consists of three buildings: the church with a single rectangular room, finishing with a semi-circular apse; a room on the right, used as a sacristy today; the bell tower next to the facade with double access doors, connected to the other two sides by a wall. The wall between the bell tower and the sacristy delimits a small …

Santa Marta Church

The church, built during the second half of the 15h century as desired by the Santa Marta brotherhood, a governing institution established in 1460, it was rebuilt towards the end of the 16th century. 

In 1622, at the right of the entrance, the oratory had already been built where the brothers met on non-work days to recital of the office of the Blessed Virgin Mary and where sacred furnishings and ecclesiastic vestments. Subsequent changes and additions moulded …

Santo Stefano di Sessano Church

The church is what remains of the Sessano village in Chiaverano, located on the rocky promontory East of the town and probably abandoned after a landslide. The building (XI Century) is contemporary with other churches in the area that have in common the peculiarity of the bell tower (clocher-porche) located at the centre of the facade.

The current church is single nave with three spans and end apse where a sacristy was added (at the South) in Baroque era. Outside …

Synagogue

The Synagogue is in the historical centre of Ivrea, under the castle walls, where the Jewish ghetto was officially instituted in 1725. The current building from the 19th century was obtained by adapting a pre-existent structure, it has two anonymous facades, East towards via Peana and West on Via Quattro Martiri, that camouflage themselves perfectly in the urban fabric, not making it possible to identify the existence of a place of prayer from the outside. Even the …

The Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral

The Santa Maria cathedral, with is thousand year history, is without a doubt the most important place of worship of the Ivrea city, built in a relevant position, where it is hypothesised the roman acropolis was. The most antique part of the crypt, of carolingian influence, it is characterised by a ring shape, with typical cross-shaped vaults supported by thin columns and half conical capitals. The most recent part of the crypt (XII and XIII century) is …