Turin and Piedmont

Culinary Adventures In And Around Italy

Day 4 and 6 , transfer to Asti province at Locanda La Corte, and visiting one of the best place on the world for food, wine and historical conservation.

In the morning, private transfer with car and english speaking guide from Turin Palace Hotel to Locanda La Corte, the car and driver itıs at your disposal for all the rest off the two days.

122 rooms and 2 suites, all tastefully decorated, each with its own distinctive style and provided with all comforts: satellite TV, hi-fi, telephone with direct outside line, air conditioning, wardrobe and minibar.

Information about Locanda La Corte:

The Farm Holidays La Corte is inserted in a company body of 7 hectares of vineyard. The properties of the family Cusmano, where 12 people work, include other three wine companies near to the farm holidays, for a total of about forty hectares of vineyard. The company produces nine qualities of wine that will be soon winesfied in the new basement of the farm holidays.

All the rooms have period furniture and the style characterizing the furnishing is essential and refined, while the colours of the tissues take the tones and the shading of the landscape.Each ambient is air-conditioned.

Two swimming-pools, for adults and for children, with a size of 14 mt x 7 mt.

A restaurant with 60 seats opening on a large veranda overlooking the "closed court".

A big hall with the fireplace, the wooden ceiling and arched windows, with a nice view of the hills.

A country room for the taste of our wines and of the typical products.

The restaurant service offers in the morning an abundant breakfast buffet and in the evening, on request, the traditional Piedmontese food.

Day 4 explore Asti and the land where Barolo is produced.

Asti, proud native land of Vittorio Alfieri, positioned on a high ground from the Tanaro river and the Borbore torrent, were more times destroyed during wars and besiege.

It has conserved in the centuries an illustrious artistic historical patrimony to passed testimony of its glorious one: it walls, medieval towers, buildings, churches and crypts, from the elegant effects chromium plated obtained thanks to us to the alternation of tuff and bricks characteristic of the local architecture.

After we move along the country roads that meander through the Bassa Langa (Lower Langa) from village to village. 'The king of wines, the wine of kings' is produced in eleven towns: Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Diano d'Alba, Grinzane Cavour, La Morra, Roddi, Serralunga, Monforte, Novello, Verduno and Cherasco. The area boasts a rich variety of landscape where vineyards are extraordinarily tidy. At the end of the tour, you will come across Cherasco, an intriguing town steeped in history and heritage where some of most remarkable Baroque buildings are to be found.

Day 5 explore Roero, the most famous place on the world for high quality wine.

This diverse area features both rounded hills shrouded in vineyards and rugged hills covered with woods and hazel groves. Visit the fascinating 18th century manor and the Museum of Ancient Arts and Traditions in Magliano Alfieri. The elegant manor in Govone built to the project by the well-known architect Juvarra is also well worth the trip. Marvel at the stunning Baroque country mansion in Guarene. Canale, that is famous all over Europe for its delicious peaches, hosts the Regional Enoteca of the Roero.

Day 6 explore the high Langa.

In the Alta Langa hills are ragged and higher, the weather is colder and the landscape is strewn with green pastures, woods of pine and chestnut, and large hazel groves. Cortemilia, which features the impressive Romanic Saint Mary's Pieve, is the main town as far as the production of hazelnuts (the local cultivation being the 'Tonda Gentile', that is round and delicate) goes. Visit Borgomale, with its vaguely sinister castle was the site of frightful legends, and Prunetto, which boasts a recently restored castle and a beautiful medieval church.