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Agliè
Near the foot of the Alps, but still remarkably in sight of Turin's hilltop monument La Superga if the day is clear, is a small town with a big castle: Agliè.
Acqui Terme
Acqui Terme, from acque termali, “thermal waters,” is not all that this city has to offer. If we were to describe Acqui Terme in just one word, it would be synthesis, expressing its mix of a multicultural background, territory, and natural elements. ...
Dogliani
Historically as well as geographically, Dogliani has always been a confined territory. As the area’s entry point to the lower southwest Langa territory and homeland of the celebrated Dolcetto wine, its name recalls characteristics of the region itsel...
Santo Stefano Belbo
Santo Stefano Belbo is a town with two souls: the first is wine production, as seen by the encircling hills covered in grapevines; and the other is culture, as it’s the birthplace of Cesare Pavese, born in 1908, the great writer who took inspiration ...
Canale
Canale is the mercantile heart of the Roero. The first attestations of its weekly open air market, which still brings the town alive every Tuesday (while the fruit and vegetable vendors sell every day except Saturday), can be traced as far back as th...
Boca
Boca is a town for the wine adventurist. This northern village in the province of Novara, population 1,195, is not a tourist destination in itself unless you’re a wine seeker or, perhaps, a pilgrim. Instead, its red Boca wine, certified DOC in 1969, ...
Neive
Clinging to one of the Langhe's highest hills, its most recent expansion spreading down towards the foothills, sits one of the most beautiful villages in all of Italy: Neive. Already an Ancient Roman center around 100 B.C., the historical heart of th...
Mango
He reached the ravine and clambered up over its muddy track and was on the slopes of the gigantic, mammoth hill of Mango. The black woods which seemed to be carbonised, leant over him undulatingly, and the open, fleetingly glimpsed grassy slopes on s...
Diano d'Alba
Diano D’Alba is the unexpected stroke of a paintbrush that designed, with flair, a prominent knoll on the rolling hills of the Langa. The city is defined by a great wall of white sandstone that overlooks the Alba plains to the north, and faces the ca...
Barolo
Barolo is the heart of the Langhe, a country clinging to the side of a high plateau, protected and surrounded by vineyards of Nebbiolo. “Barolo” refers to a wine, a castle, and a village inhabited by less than 800 people on its 5 square kilometers of...
Gattinara
In the words of Mario Soldati, a passionate wine and food lover, writer, scenographer, director, and symbolic figure of 20th century Italy, we find the most candid description of Gattinara. Soldati arrived in Gattinara in the 1950s, a traveler in sea...
Gavi
Neither a train nor a road will take you to the doorstep of Gavi. To visit this little town, it’s necessary to seek it out. There are many reasons that draw a tourist here: art, history, wine, and food all cross paths to make this a small treasure ch...
Barbaresco
Take a leisurely tour of Barbaresco and its vineyards by a drive through its hills before arriving in the town center. Leave Alba at your back and begin your uphill journey towards San Rocco Seno d’Elvio around hairpin turns of the Road 3. You will l...
Ghemme
Legend has it that the ancient Celtic tribes who conquered the local inhabitants of Ghemme in 4 AD decided to stay not only for its strategic position, but also for its excellent wine.
Canelli
A city of beginnings, a city of endings; for the characters of Cesare Pavese, it was both the door to the world and the insurmountable gate out of their provincial lives. Canelli is the last stronghold of the Langhe (or the first of Monferrato) where...
Govone
If an artist designed a geometric form to contain all of the Roero, Govone would represent the easternmost point of that figure. This landlocked territory that sits halfway between Alba and Asti has a royal viewing point of the lands laid out below n...
La Morra
La Morra may be the first place you want to visit while exploring the wine regions of the Langhe. This 13th century hilltop town with its long curve of medieval walls boasts the greatest number of Barolo producers of all the wine’s regions, as well a...
Nizza Monferrato
The temple of the Piedmontese Barbera wine is raised up on more than column. Nizza is surely one of them, so much so that its name is given to a subzone that, for the Nicesi, represents a “superzone.” Nizza DOCG (formerly Barbera d’Asti Docg Superior...
Ivrea
The Torinese wine zone resides within the larger Canavese area, of which Ivrea has been its epicenter for centuries. Its central importance means a fascinating spread of medieval architecture, certainly a castle—all important Canavese towns have one—...
Chieri
On the other side of the hills of Turin, beyond the famous Superga monument overlooking the city, lie fields of corn, forests, and a scattering of vineyards. In these Collina Torinese, or Turin Hills, smaller quantities of wine are produced than in P...
Strevi
Strevi is only one town, but it seems like two. Divided into upper and lower halves by the state highway chopping through like the swing of an axe, this small center just a few miles away from Acqui Terme announces itself with the force of its castle...
Tortona
In the words of the young writer Marco Candia, the secrets of Tortona – its history as a land of transit, commerce, borders, and conquest at the hands of many potentates – grew to be a part of the city. Tortona has a past full of war and destruction,...
Asti
Asti is Vittorio Alfieri and Paolo Conte; it is palaces and monuments in all different styles, alternating from Baroque to Gothic to Liberty. Asti is buildings both sacred and powerful; it’s wine and gastronomy that manifest in events that are famous...
Caluso
What draws visitors to Caluso, a small town of 8,000 inhabitants, is its unique, fresh, white wine that comes from the native Erbaluce grape (or, by other accounts, a hybrid of a Ligurian variety and southern Greco grape).
Ovada
Ovada and its countryside feel like an up-and-coming Langhe, although comparing it to another territory doesn't do it justice at all. This town has its own identity and two of Piemonte's rather hidden crown jewels, the wines Dolcetto di Ovada DOC and...
Carema
Piedmontese on the map but Valdostano in all intentions: Carema, the first Canavese town to the north and 63 km (39 mi) from Turin, presented a referendum in 2007 asking for annexation from the Valley d'Aosta. Annexation denied, the great majority of...