Serralunga di Crea

Serralunga di Crea sits in the Basso Monferrato hills forty-five kilometers east of Torino, on the highest of a series of ridges that look across the Po plain. The Sacro Monte di Crea rises on a wooded hill of 443 meters above the village. The sanctuary at its centre is traditionally attributed to Saint Eusebius of Vercelli around 350 AD; the climb of chapels was begun in 1589 by Costantino Massino on a Rosary plan of fifteen chapels, expanded over the next two centuries to twenty-three chapels and five hermitages.

The Chapel of Paradise at the summit holds more than three hundred statues, one of the most elaborate compositions in the Sacri Monti. The Sacro Monte di Crea is one of the nine Sacri Monti of Piemonte and Lombardia inscribed by UNESCO in 2003. The surrounding vineyards are part of the Monferrato Vineyard Landscape inscribed in 2014, the second UNESCO recognition reachable from the same commune.