Borghi più belli d'Italia

Borghi più belli d'Italia in Piedmont

17 towns

Piedmont carries 17 of the Borghi più belli d'Italia towns we cover. They cluster in the Cuneo, Alessandria, and Asti provinces.

The three most recognised in our catalogue are Castagnole delle Lanze, Guarene, and Orta San Giulio. 14 more towns carry the mark alongside them.

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 promontory facing an islet basilica, with a UNESCO complex of Francis-of-Assisi chapels on the hill above.
Barolo
Province: Cuneo · 301 m
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
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 castle of 1348 and five centuries as seat of the lower valley's jurisdiction.
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
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 the Divisionist painter Giuseppe Pellizza lived and died at thirty-eight in 1907.
Cella Monte
Province: Alessandria · 268 m
A 465-person Monferrato Casalese borgo at 268 meters, built entirely from a sandstone found only here, riddled underneath with cellars carved into the same stone.
Garbagna
Province: Alessandria · 270 m
A borgo at 270 meters with tall Ligurian-style houses, held together by narrow stone streets and carved portals.
Mombaldone
Province: Asti · 260 m
A walled village of 197 residents, the only borgo in its area that still holds its full medieval perimeter.
Ostana
Province: Cuneo · 1,280 m
An 85-resident Occitan-speaking alpine borgo at 1,280m in the upper Po valley, rebuilt from near-abandonment into an architecturally celebrated mountain village with a direct frontal view of Monviso.

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