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Extract from the Biella and Ivrea Travel Guides:
A short train ride northwest from Novara, the provincial capital of
BIELLA
is known for its wool industry, its periphery choked with mills and the hilltop upper town with the mansions and villas of wool barons. It's not an especially rewarding place, apart perhaps from its small medieval quarter, reachable by funicular or by strolling up its many arcaded lanes. But it does give access to the
Santuario d'Oropa
(daily 7.30am-noon & 2-6pm; free), a forty-minute bus ride northwest of Biella at the foot of Monte Mucrone. Founded in the fourth century by St Eusebio to house a black statue of the Madonna and Child, this...
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