Spighe Verdi
Spighe Verdi in Piedmont
12 towns
Piedmont holds 12 Spighe Verdi sites inside our catalogue. They cluster in the Cuneo, Alessandria, and Asti provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Alba, Canelli, and Guarene. 9 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Alba
Province: Cuneo · 172 m
The Langhe capital at 172 meters on the Tanaro, world reference for white truffle and Nebbiolo, headquarters of Ferrero.
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.
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.
Acqui Terme
Province: Alessandria · 156 m
A Roman spa town at 156 meters on the Bormida, where a sulphurous spring still surfaces at 74.5 degrees under an 1870 pavilion.
Bra
Province: Cuneo · 290 m
A Roero town at 290 meters where Carlo Petrini founded Slow Food in 1986 and the world's first gastronomic university now teaches food systems.
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.
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
A Barolo cru village at 480 meters where the Cathars were burned in 1028 and where the summer jazz festival fills the old piazza.
Santo Stefano Belbo
Province: Cuneo · 175 m
A Belbo valley village at 175 meters between the Langhe and Asti hills, birthplace of Cesare Pavese and the largest producer of Moscato d'Asti.
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.
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.
Castiglione Falletto
Province: Cuneo · 350 m
A Barolo hilltop of 672 at 350 meters in the Langhe, with an eleventh-century castle whose circular keep is over seven meters in diameter.
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