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]