🟠Bandiera Arancione in Piedmont

Chiusa di Pesio

Province: Cuneo · 575 m

The valley mouth town at 575 meters where the Pesio leaves the Ligurian Alps, founded around a Carthusian monastery donated in 1173.

Avigliana

Province: Torino · 383 m

A medieval Savoy town at 383 meters at the mouth of the Susa Valley, between two glacial lakes and the Sacra di San Michele.

Canelli

Province: Asti · 157 m

The Asti Spumante town at 157 meters in the Belbo valley, where 20 kilometers of underground tuff cellars hold millions of bottles at constant temperature.

Cannobio

Province: Verbano-Cusio-Ossola · 214 m

A medieval lake town at 214 meters on Maggiore's western shore, host to one of the largest Sunday markets on the lake.

Castagnole delle Lanze

Province: Asti · 298 m

An Asti hill town at 298 meters between Langhe and Monferrato, with two Baroque churches and a nineteenth-century astronomical tower.

Guarene

Province: Cuneo · 360 m

A Roero hilltop village at 360 meters above the Tanaro, whose Roero family baroque castle is now a luxury hotel and contemporary art destination.

Orta San Giulio

Province: Novara · 294 m

A Lake Orta promontory facing an islet with a Romanesque basilica, plus a UNESCO Sacro Monte of twenty Francis-of-Assisi chapels on the hill above.

Susa

Province: Torino · 503 m

The Roman gateway to the Cottian Alps at 503 meters, capital of the Alpes Cottiae and seat of the Cozii under Augustus and Cottius.

Alagna Valsesia

Province: Vercelli · 1,191 m

A Walser village at 1,191 meters under Monte Rosa, settled from the Swiss Valais in the 13th century and known to off-piste skiers worldwide.

Barolo

Province: Cuneo · 301 m

• 🍷Barolo DOCG

A Langhe borgo at 301 meters whose Castello Falletti gave its name to the wine the Marchesi turned dry in the 1830s with Cavour's help.

Candelo

Province: Biella · 350 m

A Biellese commune at 350 meters whose Ricetto, a 13th-century fortified shelter of two hundred stone cellule, is the best-preserved in Piedmont.

Cocconato

Province: Asti · 491 m

A Monferrato ridge town at 491 meters with a microclimate mild enough to grow palms and olives this far north.

Gavi

Province: Alessandria · 233 m

The Cortese di Gavi town below a Genoese star fortress, where Piemonte white wine was first recorded as Ligurian court tribute in 972.

Monforte d'Alba

Province: Cuneo · 480 m

• 🍷Barolo DOCG

A Barolo cru village at 480 meters where the Cathars were burned in 1028 and where the summer jazz festival fills the old piazza.

Usseaux

Province: Torino · 1,416 m

A Val Chisone village at 1,416 meters with four scattered borgate and more than forty murals painted across the stone facades.

Vogogna

Province: Verbano-Cusio-Ossola · 226 m

An Ossola medieval capital at 226 meters on the Toce, with a Visconti castle of 1348 and five centuries as seat of the Ossola Inferiore.

Agliè

Province: Torino · 330 m

A Canavese borgo at 330 meters whose Castello Ducale, a UNESCO Savoy residence since 1997, has been held by the d'Agliè since 1259.

Arona

Province: Novara · 212 m

A Lake Maggiore town at the southern tip of the lake, watched over by a 35-meter copper colossus of San Carlo Borromeo finished in 1698.

Cannero Riviera

Province: Verbano-Cusio-Ossola · 225 m

A Lago Maggiore commune of 900 on the western shore, fronted by three rocky islets, the Castelli di Cannero, Borromeo ruins from 1521.

Cherasco

Province: Cuneo · 288 m

A walled town at 288 meters where the Tanaro meets the Stura, where Napoleon imposed his 1796 armistice on Piedmont.

Fenestrelle

Province: Torino · 1,154 m

A Val Chisone village at 1,154 meters below the largest alpine fortress in Europe, three kilometers of stone climbing 650 vertical meters up the ridge.

La Morra

Province: Cuneo · 513 m

• 🍷Barolo DOCG

The hilltop above the Barolo zone at 513 meters, more Nebbiolo acreage than any other commune and 62 wineries inside its perimeter.

Limone Piemonte

Province: Cuneo · 1,000 m

A ski village at 1,000 meters in the Vermenagna valley, the southern end of the Alps where the Tenda tunnel drops toward the Côte d'Azur.

Macugnaga

Province: Verbano-Cusio-Ossola · 1,327 m

A Walser village at 1,327 meters at the foot of the east wall of Monte Rosa, founded in the 13th century by colonists from Valais.

Mergozzo

Province: Verbano-Cusio-Ossola · 204 m

A 2.5-kilometer lake cut from Lago Maggiore by Toce flood sediments, with a centuries-old elm on its lakefront piazza.

Moncalvo

Province: Asti · 305 m

Italy's smallest city by title, 2,730 residents on a Monferrato ridge, with a five-hundred-year truffle tradition and Guglielmo Caccia's home churches.

Neive

Province: Cuneo · 308 m

• 🍷Barbaresco DOCG

A hilltop borgo at 308 meters in the Barbaresco zone, named for the Roman gens Naevia, with four wines in commercial volume.

Varallo

Province: Vercelli · 450 m

The capital of Valsesia at 450 meters, the oldest Sacro Monte in Europe and a forty-five-chapel devotional complex on the rock above town.

Grinzane Cavour

Province: Cuneo · 195 m

The Langhe village whose eleventh-century castle was Cavour's mayoral seat for seventeen years and now hosts the November Alba White Truffle World Auction.