{"id":310469,"date":"2024-08-09T22:09:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/what-to-see\/saluzzo-ancient-municipal-tower-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:06:19","slug":"saluzzo-ancient-municipal-tower","status":"publish","type":"what-to-see","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/what-to-see\/saluzzo-ancient-municipal-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Municipal Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The building of the palace and the Municipal Tower dates back to 1462, during the marquisate of Ludovico I (1416-1475). In 1601, on the occasion of the arrival in the city of Carlo Emanuele of Savoy, the <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Municipal <\/span>commissioned to the Saluzzo artist Cesare Arbasia (1547 ca-1607) a celebratory decoration for the signing of the <strong>Treaty of Lyon<\/strong>, which sanctioned the annexation of the Marquisate of Saluzzo to the Duchy of Savoy.<br \/>\nThe coat of arms of Carlo Emanuele I is flanked by the saints Costanzo and Chiaffredo.<br \/>\nOn the first floor is the <strong>hall of honor<\/strong>, formerly the seat of the Congregations of the Marquisate, which has a coffered ceiling with mythological, symbolic and heraldic decorations dating back to the 1400s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Civic Tower<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The municipal tower was a sign of the urban community and a symbol of a force independent of the marquis power and religious influence.<br \/>\nHigh 48 m. at the top bears a dome added in 1556, home to the large bell that marked the time of city life.<br \/>\nIn 1993 an important conservation intervention returned it to the citizenship and, with the ascent of 130 steps, it allowed to find a superb panoramic point of view on the village, on the hill up to the plain and the Alps in the distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Town Hall of Saluzzo dates back to 1462, during the marquisate of Ludovico I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":237437,"template":"","village-conntection":[51023],"what-to-see-region-and-provinces":[76185,76181],"what-to-see-category":[28445],"class_list":["post-310469","what-to-see","type-what-to-see","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-saluzzo-it","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-cuneo-en","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-piedmont","what-to-see-category-palace-villa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/what-to-see"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=310469"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-region-and-provinces","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-region-and-provinces?post=310469"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-category?post=310469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}