CATHEDRAL, Interior

In Turin's Cathedral, white dominates everywhere; once inside you'll find yourself immersed in a pure white light that runs along the walls and their alternating elegant pillars and columns that extend to the ceiling. The arcades draw your eyes towards the high altar, and behind it, the scenery that precedes the chapel of the Shroud of Turin.

The Cathedral's Renaissance structure was designed by the Florentine architect Meo del Caprina in a simple and coherent manner in the last decade of the 1400s, although as I mentioned, various interventions and decorative embellishments were added in the following centuries. The side altars offer a view of many Baroque paintings and sculptures, and are typical examples of the House of Savoy's taste in the 1600s and 1700s.

Right after the entrance, leaning against the façade  between the right and central door, you can admire the Cathedral's most beautiful sculpture: it is the Tomb of Giovanna d'Orlier de la Balme, a French work from the 1500s, which was conceived as a stylish niche containing a statue of the deceased noblewoman kneeling in prayer....