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Nestled where the Stura stream gathers the waters of the Angassino and the Ponzema, beneath a castle that watches over slate rooftops, Campo Ligure is one of those villages that seem frozen in time yet remain very much alive. Italy’s capital of silver filigree and a member of the prestigious club of the Borghi più … Read more
Under the monumental arcades of Piazza Galimberti, the elegant heart of Cuneo, the Pasticceria Arione is one of those places where the story of a town is told through a single sweet. It is the café-patisserie that local tradition credits as the birthplace of the Cuneesi al rhum, the famous meringue-and-chocolate pralines that carried the … Read more
The Centro Uomini e Lupi (literally “Men and Wolves Centre”) is the wildlife and museum facility of the Maritime Alps Natural Park dedicated to the wolf, in Entracque, in the Gesso Valley at the heart of the Cuneo province. It is far more than a museum: a twin trail, narrative and multimedia, tells the age-old … Read more
The Terme di Valdieri (historically the Royal Baths of Valdieri) are a historic thermal spa set at roughly 1,368 metres above sea level, at the head of the upper Gesso Valley, in the heart of the Maritime Alps Natural Park, in the province of Cuneo. Here hyperthermal sulphurous water rises straight from the rock at … Read more
Piazza Galimberti — officially Piazza Tancredi “Duccio” Galimberti — is the heart of Cuneo: a vast 19th-century square of almost 24,000 square metres, ringed on every side by arcaded buildings with uniform facades. From here radiate the famous porticoes that make Cuneo one of Italy’s most “arcaded” towns, and from here begins pedestrian Via Roma, … Read more
The historic shop Krumiri Rossi Portinaro is the confectionery in Casale Monferrato, in the province of Alessandria, where according to the sources the famous Krumiri were born in 1878: biscuits made from a plain, fragrant dough, curved one by one until they take on their distinctive “moustache” shape. Invented by the local pastry chef Domenico … Read more
The Ecomuseum of the Pietra da Cantoni, based in Cella Monte in the heart of the Casale Monferrato area (province of Alessandria, Piedmont), tells a story that weaves together geology, peasant labour and the culture of wine. Two protagonists stand at its centre: the Pietra da Cantoni, the soft Miocene sandstone with which houses, churches … Read more
La Bollente is the thermal spring that has become the symbol of Acqui Terme, a town in the Alto Monferrato just over an hour’s drive from Genoa. At the centre of an octagonal marble aedicule, designed by the local architect Giovanni Cerruti and inaugurated in 1879, sulphurous, saline-bromo-iodic water flows without pause, emerging at around … Read more
Behind a plain, almost anonymous façade, in an alley of the old ghetto of Casale Monferrato, hides one of the most astonishing interiors in Piedmont. The Synagogue of Casale Monferrato, whose origins date back to 1595 and which was embellished over the following centuries into a triumph of gilded stucco, carved woodwork and Hebrew inscriptions, … Read more
The Slate Ecomuseum – The Black Stone Trail tells the story of the stone that shaped Val Fontanabuona: slate, the “black stone” (in the local dialect the ciappa) quarried and worked in this valley of the Genoese hinterland for generations — right up to the school blackboards and billiard tables known well beyond the borders … Read more
