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Biella
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Biella (byĕl`lä), city (1991 pop. 48,324), Piedmont, NW Italy. It is a major cotton and wool textile manufacturing center. Biella came under the Visconti of Milan in 1353 and under the house of Savoy in 1379. Of note are several palaces (15th–16th cent.), an early Romanesque baptistery (10th cent.), and a Renaissance cathedral.
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This chapter also suggests that Savoyard rulers sought to strengthen their presence in dynastic borderlands near Biella by establishing a Sacro Monte at Oropa in the early seventeenth century.
La geografia celeste dei duchi di Savoia: Religione, devozioni e ... by Vester, Matthew / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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