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Ivrea (Italian:; Piedmontese: Ivrèja; French: Ivrée; Latin: Eporedia) is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy. Situated on the road leading to the Aosta Valley (part of the medieval Via Francigena ), it straddles the Dora Baltea and is regarded as the centre of the Canavese area.
Ivrea places to visit. Sacro Monte di Oropa. The Sanctuary of Oropa is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Italy. Sacro Monte di Oropa guide. Fortress of Bard. Both the medieval village and its renowned fortress make Bard a very interesting destination. Fortress of Bard guide. Superga. The Basilica of Superga is an imposing baroque ...
Ivrea. Ivrea was founded in BC 100 by the Romans on a settlement of a previous era: the name Eporedia deriving from epo (horse) and reda (cart) stressed the link of the ancient city with horses, still very much present and celebrated in the Festival of the Patron Saint San Savino. There are two main areas of Ivrea: the Ancient City and the ...
The Essential Guide to Ivrea Most times of the year, Ivrea, a Piedmontese town of about 25,000 residents, 45 minutes north of Turin, is quiet. It’s filled with understated history. As the former empire for Olivetti, it was home to a world-renowned typewriter and mainframe computer factory in the ‘50s and ‘60s, which is now a museum and office buildings. Strolling across its arched stone Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) and the Dora Baltea River follows a path first laid in 100 CE, originally ...
Ivrea lies along the Dorea Baltea and is considered the centre of Canavese. The village is located 50 kilometres from Turin, along the road leading to Valle D'Aosta, on the ancient Via Francigena. In the old town, where the traditional “ Battle of the Oranges” is held every year at Carnival, the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, built on ...
History and interesting facts about Ivrea. The Industrial City of Ivrea is an industrial, but also a socio-cultural project of the company of the same name founded in 1908 by Camillo Olivetti. Created during the 1930s, it grew until the late 1960s riding the wave of the Italian economic boom. Adriano Olivetti, considered a visionary genius, in ...
Ivrea, town and episcopal see, Piemonte (Piedmont) region, northwestern Italy, on the Dora Baltea River, north of Turin. The importance of its gold mines led the Romans to seize the district from the Salassi in 143 bc. Ivrea was a Lombard duchy and, from the 9th century, a marquessate, and two of its rulers, Berengar II (950) and Arduin (1002 ...
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