NOVARA , twenty minutes further down the train line towards Milan, makes for a more elegant, unhurried stopover than Vercelli, its main street, Corso Cavour , neatly paved with half-moon cobbles and lined with pasticcerie and old-fashioned tearooms. That said, there's not much left of historic Novara: the medieval Broletto houses an open-air cinema in summer, and the Duomo is an overblown Neoclassical creation... [More]