ATL - Asti
The Asti-Monferrato area offers many itineraries. These include following the footsteps of the playwright Vittorio Alfieri, discovering the innumerable Romanesque, Mediaeval or Baroque treasures, sampling the local food and wine or exploring the traditions of the countryside. Any season is right for a trip to the hills of Asti with their vineyards, Mediaeval castles and Romanesque churches. Then there is the pageantry and excitement of the historical re-enactments of bygone events: Asti’s famous horse race, the Palio; the Siege of Canelli; the Festival of the Sagre.
Information
Piazza Alfieri, 29 - 14100 Asti
Tel. +39.0141.530357 - Fax: +39.0141.538200
E-mail: atl@axt.it
www.astiturismo.it
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Places
Abbazia di Novalesa
Near the monastery, there are four chapels dedicated to Saint Mary, Saint Salvador, Saint Michael, and the most important one to Saint Eldrado which has two splendid fresco cycles (from the late 11th century) narrating moments from the lives of Saint Eldrado and Saint Nicholas.
Filatoio Rosso di Caraglio
The Filatoio (Spinning Mill), built between 1676 and 1678, is an extraordinary example of 17th century Piemonte “industrial architecture”. Today, completely restored, it houses the Museo Regionale della Seta (Regional Silk Museum), as well as contemporary art shows.
La “Bollente” di Acqui Terme
This is an elegant, octagonal temple-structure inaugurated in 1879. This eclectic structure has a spring where sulfuric-salty-bromine-iodic water flows at a temperature of 74.5 degrees Celsius.
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People
Raffaele La Capria
“The Langhe landscape is stunning. I am a man of the sea and looking at these hills reminds me of a very rough, live and vibrant green sea. But there is another aspect that impresses me, the order of the vineyards. It’s a geometric order in which man’s care and love can be seen along with the fact that the vineyards are a resource closely tied to the roots of mankind.”
Antonello Venditti
“Torino is a fist of good earth raised to the sky…it’s my second home. I found a special lady here who knows how to reward me with affection. This is why I will never forget the concert I gave at Palasport in 1980”.
Achille Bonito Oliva
“There is a touch of eroticism in a city (Torino) that appears to be dominated by an urban geometric shape tied to French style of road-building, that has always hidden its fire under the ashes, in a collective unconscious that smoulders and emerges every so often.”
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