Gravellona Toce

Main sights

• Gallo-Roman necropolis
• Parish church of St. Peter
• Castello del Motto : is an ancient human settlement. It is located on a hill at the slopes of Mottarone, at its feet is located an old agglomeration of houses mainly built in granite, white and pink. In recent years, cleaning works, university studies and a valorization of the site have brought the site to view in its splendor
• Romanesque church of St. Maurice : it is the oldest, most important and significant monument in Gravellona, its existence is documented from the X century. It is a Romanesque building made of local stone blocks, partly obtained from a nearby Roman tower. The walls, externally decorated by lombard band, have large rectangular windows in place of the original single-fronted. Inside, the fifteenth-century groin vaults of the roof of the single nave have recently been replaced with exposed trusses; fifteenth-century frescoes have emerged from the lime layer that concealed them during the restoration carried out by Mesturino in 1925. On the northern side stands the bell tower, separate but directly connected to the church. The lower part, seems to date back to the last decades of the eleventh century; the bell tower, with the octagonal dome is an addition from the nineteenth century.
• Villa Capra : originally from the end of 1700, it was the home of senator Francesco Albertini in the second half of the twentieth century. The property was the home of the Cav. Giovanni Capra fu Leopoldo, deputy to the Subalpine Parliament during the VI Legislature of the Kingdom of Sardinia. The villa, currently closed to the public due to important structural problems, is awaiting an important restoration work. A part of the original park of the villa has been transformed into a public park.
• Church of Santa Maria Al Bosco
• Church of "Madonna Dell'Occhio"