page_title: Saluzzo
section_title: Main sights
hierarchical_section_title: Saluzzo / Main sights
caption_attribution_description: Campanile della Chiesa di San Giovanni a Saluzzo
context_page_description: Saluzzo is a town and former principality in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont region, Italy.
  The city of Saluzzo is built on a hill overlooking a vast, well-cultivated plain. Iron, lead, silver, marble, slate etc. are found in the surrounding mountains.
  On January 1, 2017 it had a population of 16,968.
  Saluzzo was the birthplace of the writer Silvio Pellico and of typographer Giambattista Bodoni.
context_section_description: Cathedral of saluzzo (1491–1501): Church was built in Lombard-Gothic style. The façade is decorated with rose-windows, frescoes (almost totally faded) and statues. The interior contains a magnificent Baroque high altar, plus a 16th-century terracotta group portraying the Deposition, ad Adoration of the Shepherds by Sebastiano Ricci.
  San Bernardo church formerly belonging to the Conventuals, has interesting tombs of the counts della Torre.
  San Giovanni: Dominican church begun in 1330 in Gothic style and completed in 1504 with Bramantesque influences. The façade is Gothic. The apse, from 1504, houses a Funerary Chapel of Ludovico II, work by Antoine Le Moiturier (1425–74) covered with green stone and characterized by an elegant play of arches and sculptures. The sepulchre of Ludovico II is a Renaissance work by Benedetto Briosco. Annexed are the Gothic cloister and the Capitular Hall with the Mausoleum of a vicar-general of the marquisate, Galeazzo Cavassa di Carmagnola, a Renaissance work by Matteo Sanmicheli.
  Casa Cavassa: site of the civic museum and rebuilt with a Renaissance interior.
  San Agostino and  San Bernardino
  Town Hall is the former Jesuit College, while the older one (1462), with a bold tower, is utilized by the Court of Assizes. The 16th century Villa Belvedere has elegant rooms with late-Renaissance decorations.
caption: Chiesa di San Giovanni
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