Bathing areas
Cannero, Riviera and Cannobio, quaint little villages overlooking the Piemonte shore of Lago Maggiore, are proud to state that for the last few years they have been recipients of the only two blue flags awarded in Piemonte by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE). The flag is a certificate of merit awarded to Italian shores that stand out for the excellence of their waters, cleanliness, organization for tourists and services offered. The Cannobio shore is one of the best known and most attended on Lago Maggiore for its beauty, the space available as well as for the wind that typifies this area, making it acknowledged as a suitable place to sail. Among the other beaches in Piemonte, there are those on Orta, Sirio, Mergozzo and Avigliana lakes as well as the river banks of the Sesia and Ticino. In many cases the shores are very well equipped: ideal for those who are looking for sun, peace and relaxation, offering the opportunity to swim or to practice one of the many water and wind sports in splendid natural surroundings.
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Places
Historical Wine Cellars in Canelli
The wine cellars – which hold ancient barrels perfectly lined-up – have brick arches, lowered large round arches connected to each other by tunnels that reach into the layers and strata of earth which have formed over the centuries.
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.
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
Roberto Faenza
“With its ancient and distressing twilight vice, Torino is the abstract, metaphysical space, the beautiful stranger, aloof and a bit mysterious that I have chosen to bring to the screen for Giorni dell’abbandono based on Elena Ferrante’s novel with the same title.”
Alberto Arbasino
“I was affected by the difference between the Langhe landscape today and that honoured by Cesare Pavese in his books. I saw those very same hills filled with cars, houses and sheds…the same landscape in the works of Pavese was passed through by bicycles ringing their bells. This can no longer be seen these days. It’s a real shame!”
Caparezza
“And I love eating in Torino, most of all the raw meat. I like this city. I’ve been to the Museo del Cinema three times and even took a walk up the hill. After a few kilometres I was at the top of Colle della Maddalena and could see the entire city.”
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