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Take the pretty excursion up on a hill across the river to Sassi, 10 km (6 miles) east of Turin, to see Juvarra’s Baroque masterpiece, the splendid domed Basilica di Superga completed in 1731 and the hilltop view of Turin, the Alps, and the Po Plain.
You’ll find the basilica’s most treasured work of art, Michelangelo’s sublime Pietà — Mary with the dead Jesus on her lap — in its own chapel to the right of the entrance.
The 20th-century neo-Baroque basilica that draws so many of the faithful, said to be twice as big as St. Peter’s in Rome, faces an immense but rather plain square.
Foremost is the Basilica of the Holy Cross (Santa Croce), the city’s best example of its Baroque heyday, and the Piazza del Duomo, ringed by the rebuilt cathedral and neighboring buildings of similar pedigree.
The mosaic also shows the basilica with the famous bronze horses brought from Constantinople after the Crusade of 1204 (the ones over the triple-arched main entrance are copies, the originals are kept in the basilica museum since their recent restoration).