Montalto Dora
Montalto Dora is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin.
Main sights
- Montalto Dora Castle, known from the mid-12th century but rebuilt in the 18th-20th centuries. It has a massive mastio and a chapel with 15th-century frescoes. The castle was owned by the bishopric of Ivrea, from which it went to the Duchy of Savoy in the 14th century.
- Parish church of Sant'Eusebio
- Church of San Rocco, with Mannerist frescoes inside
- Villa Casana, dating to the late 16th century but enlarged around 1918.
- Lake Pistono and Lake Nero, two lakes of glacial origin.