3 star hotel in Turin

Des Alpes is a 3 star hotel in Turin. The greatest testimonies of the age altomedievale, overall poor of artistic demonstrations, they are the barbaric (Testona) necropolises, some baptisterys (Novara, Agrate Conturbia) and rests of churches then reconstructed in the Romanesque period. To the second halves the sec. Xs go up again the church Romanesque-lombarda of S. Michael of Oleggio and the cathedral of Ivrea (969-1006), first local example of great Romanesque basilica. Richer than artistic testimonies they are the sec. XI-XIII. Maximum monuments of Romanesque art are the Sacred one of S. Michael (sec. XI-XIII), the cathedrals of Hamlet (from the monumental atrium) and Susa, the abbey of Vezzolano, that you/they now show influences of taste French, now lombardo, with a present alternation often also in the following centuries. Notable examples of Romanesque sculpture are the Door of the Zodiac and the capitals of the presbytery of the Sacred one of S. Michael. Because of the weak town development, in P. they are few the urban centers that show notable characteristics of medieval, while numerous age they are the abbeys and still anymore the castles (besides generally altered or destroyed in following age) _ [1v\h1 "10424747 "_ [0v_ [1v\h1 "11016187 "_ [0v. Among the cities that knew a certain development in the sec. XII-XIII Novara can be remembered, Vercelli, Asti, while Alexandria, even if founded really from the Common lombardis during the wars with the Barbarossa, a suburb remained, to the equal one of Turin. To the sec. XIII are dated the church of S. Andrew of Vercelli, with the interesting reliefs antelamici and S. Anthony of Ranverso, both examples of Gothic style. In the two following centuries, while they are staying to a modest level the painting and the sculpture, numerous constructions they show the local interpretation of the Gothic taste. Particularly the churches are characterized for the tall cuspidis, or "ghimberghe", that surmount the portals: among these the cathedral and the church of S. are remembered Giovanni to Saluzzo (sec. XV), the cathedrals of Chieri, Ciriè, Chivasso. To models type lombardo the cathedral in Asti, the broletto of Novara and other monuments refer him instead. Within the Gothic sculpture it is particularly interesting the carving in wood of crucifixes, icons, stalemates of the choirs (p. es. in the cathedrals of Chieri and Susa). The to remain some feudalism in wide part of the region is testified by the big number of castles of the sec. XV-XVI scattered to dominate the various centers, in kind well preserved and characteristic those of the Canavese (Rivarolo, Montalto Dora, Ivrea, etc.) and of the Monferrato. Of particular interest for the epoch it is the ancient center of Saluzzo up to the Five hundred center of an independent marchesato.

3 star hotel in Turin