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Pigna, an antique village, once owned by the house of Savoy, is of a concentric structure with areas of lanes around the “Piazza Castello “, the houses of which have decorated portals of sculpted slate. Next to the “ Piazza Vecchia “ there is the church of Saint Michael with its high bell tower, on the front of which there is a magnificent rose window dating back to 1450 with coeval glass, inside there is a polypttych of 38 sections, the work of Giovanni Canavesio (1500).

The same painter painted in fresco, in 1482, on the church of Saint Bernard, located in the cemetery. He completed a cycle on the life of Jesus and the Universal Judgement. Pigna’s Museum “ La Terra e la Memoria “ ( The Land and its Memories ) collects evidence of shepherd’s tools and life as it was.

The modern complex “Antiche Terme di Pigna“ offers a rich range of services, with beauty farm.