New Year's Eve Biella

If you are going to spend a white week in Piedmonte and you want to spend the New Year's Eve in a different city, then choose Biella, famous for its industries, but also rich in much more!
In addition to be a city of great importance for the Italian trade, Biella has ancient origins.
We can virtually split Biella in three areas: the "Piano", "Biella Piazzo", and finally "Biella Piano", once upon a time the low part of the city and today the fulcrum of the Biella life.
We start the visit of Biella, from Biella Piano, which it is the most ancient area.
It deserves a visit the Cathedral of Biella, the construction of which started in 1400. A bit further from the Cathedral square, there is a beautiful pre-Romanesque Baptistery, and yet, the church of the Holy Trinity and the San Sebastiano church, all of great importance.
Other buildings to visit, they may be, for example, the house of the Holy Shroud: it is a building dating back to the XV century, which takes its name from the fact that on its front door there is a painting of the Holy Shroud.
Still, to see the Torrazza door an arc in commemoration of the visits to the city from the Savoy.
Then, you cann’t miss a visit to the museum: here you can admire the various archaeological findings, in addition to paintings, frescoes dating back to the IX century, ceramics and much more.
Distinctive and rather interesting is the Museum of Alpine troops.
We come now, taking the funicular, into the area known as "Biella Piazzo".
There are many beauties to admire here, as for example, the Cisterna palace in the Cisterna square, the d’Andorno, not far from here we find the beautiful Gothic church of San Giacomo, and yet the beautiful octagonal tower, dating back around the 1500, the Ferrero of Marmora Palace, always belonging to this prestigious family.
Furthermore, the area around Biella is renowned for its uncontaminated nature and landscapes of unprecedented beauty.
A lot of natural parks around the area, as for example: the Natural Oriented Reserve of the Baragge;

The Natural Special Reserve of Bessa, a gold mine in the open sky datone back to the time of the Romans, today its importance is due both tot o its natural aspects and historical and archeological.
Natural Special Reserve of Burcina: this i san English garden, a sort of botanical garden a few step far from Biella.