Every design for Novara
The big city that shaped you
13 unique designs from the city of Novara in Piemonte – map designs, local expressions and symbols only people who know the place will read. Also available as t-shirt, hoodie or tote bag.
T-shirt
from 249 SEK
Hoodie
from 499 SEK
Tote bag
from 129 SEK
About Novara
Antonelli's dome
Roman street plan
Rice fields
Novara is known first of all for its dome: Alessandro Antonelli's cupola on the Basilica di San Gaudenzio, 121 metres high and the emblem of the city. Beneath it lies a town the Romans founded around 89 BC, whose name joins Nov, meaning new, with Aria, the Gauls' name for the land around it.
The Castello Visconteo - Sforzesco di Novara recalls the centuries when the city was practically a Milanese dominion, first of the Visconti and then of the Sforza. Before that came destruction by Magnus Maximus, raids by Radagaisus and Attila, a Lombard duchy and a seat in the Lombard League; afterwards, the Battle of Novara, the House of Savoy and a spell as capital of Napoleon's Department of the Agogna. The Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta and the Palazzo e Arengo del Broletto stand in a centre whose perpendicular streets still follow the Roman plan.
Today it is the second city of Piedmont, a crossroads between Turin, Milan, Genoa and Switzerland, surrounded by rice fields. And above every roofline in the old centre, Antonelli's dome.
Shown on the map
Location: Piemonte, Italy
Coordinates: 45.4464°N, 8.6197°E
