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Extract from the Vercelli Travel Guides:
The centre of Piemonte's - indeed Europe's - rice-growing region is
VERCELLI
, where business people come to wheel and deal over prices in the Borsa del Riso, or rice stock exchange. If you've time to spare between trains, the
Basilica of Sant'Andrea
, just across from the station, is worth a peek. Built in the thirteenth century by a cardinal, its construction was funded with revenues from a Cambridgeshire monastery granted him by King Henry III as a reward for helping to establish him on the English throne. As the revenues were vast, it took only nine years to complete - an incredible feat at a time when churches fr...
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