🎨Borghi più belli d'Italia in Piedmont

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.

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.

Biella

Province: Biella · 417 m

A wool city at 417 meters in the Alpine foothills, where the medieval Piazzo sits above the modern Piano, connected by a funicular since 1885.

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.

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.

Garessio

Province: Cuneo · 621 m

A four-borgo medieval town at 621 meters on the Liguria-Piemonte border, built on the salt road and the source of the Acqua San Bernardo.

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.

Volpedo

Province: Alessandria · 182 m

A Colli Tortonesi village at 182 meters where Giuseppe Pellizza painted Il Quarto Stato and died at thirty-eight in 1907.

Cella Monte

Province: Alessandria · 268 m

A 465-person Monferrato Casalese borgo at 268 meters built in pietra da cantoni, with infernot cellars listed under the UNESCO Vineyard Landscape.

Garbagna

Province: Alessandria · 270 m

A Val Curone borgo at 270 meters with tall Ligurian-style houses, home of the Ciliegia Bella di Garbagna cherry.

Mombaldone

Province: Asti · 260 m

A walled village of 197 residents in the Langa Astigiana, the only borgo in the area that still holds its full medieval perimeter.

Ostana

Province: Cuneo · 1,280 m

Italy's most spectacular Monviso belvedere — an 85-resident Occitan-speaking alpine borgo at 1,280m in the upper Po valley, with a direct frontal view of Monviso (3,841m), an architecturally celebrated mountain renaissance (60+ ruined stone houses rebuilt 2000-2024 by a regional master plan), and Borghi più belli d'Italia inscription despite the small population.