Città del Vino
Città del Vino in Piemonte
18 towns
Piemonte has 18 Città del Vino communes in our index. Most cluster in the Cuneo, Asti, and Alessandria provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Acqui Terme, Alba, and Canelli. 15 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
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 1879 pavilion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gattinara
Province: Vercelli · 265 m
The Alto Piemonte Nebbiolo town on volcanic soil between the Sesia and Monte Rosa, DOCG since 1990, with a tenth-century watchtower above the vines.
La Morra
Province: Cuneo · 513 m
The hilltop above the Barolo zone, more Nebbiolo acreage than any other commune.
Moncalvo
Province: Asti · 305 m
Italy's smallest city by title, 2,773 residents on a Monferrato ridge, with a five-hundred-year truffle tradition and Guglielmo Caccia's home churches.
Casale Monferrato
Province: Alessandria · 116 m
The historic capital of the Marchesato del Monferrato at 116 meters on the Po, where the Paleologi castle and the Baroque synagogue still stand.
Dogliani
Province: Cuneo · 295 m
A two-tier Langhe town at 295 meters, the Borgo by the Rea stream and the Castello on the hill, capital of Dolcetto di Dogliani DOCG.
Nizza Monferrato
Province: Asti · 146 m
The capital of Barbera at 146 meters in the upper Monferrato, founded 1225.
Ovada
Province: Alessandria · 186 m
The Monferrato town at 186 meters where the Orba meets the Stura, one of the first two Dolcetto DOC zones in Piemonte and now DOCG.
Serralunga d'Alba
Province: Cuneo · 414 m
A 497-inhabitant Barolo cru village at 414 meters on a Langhe ridge, crowned by a 14th-century French-style donjon castle of the Falletti.
Verduno
Province: Cuneo · 381 m
A Langhe hilltop at 381 meters, the home village of the Pelaverga grape.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Piana degli Albanesi
Province: Palermo
The principal Arbëresh town of Sicily at 720 meters, founded in the fifteenth century by Albanians fleeing the Ottomans and still speaking arbëresh.
Castagneto Carducci
Province: Livorno
A hilltop borgo at 194 meters above the Costa degli Etruschi, renamed for the poet Carducci in 1907 and the home of Bolgheri and Sassicaia.
Donnas
Province: Aosta Valley
The first DOC of Valle d'Aosta, a Nebbiolo-on-terraces wine town at 322 meters where the Roman Via delle Gallie was carved into living rock.
Albidona
Province: Cosenza
A hill village at 810 meters between the Pollino and the Ionian, identified by ancient writers as Leutarnia, the city founded by Calchas after Troy.
Premilcuore
Province: Forlì-Cesena
A 459-meter walled borgo on the Rabbi river, an entry point to the Foreste Casentinesi from the Romagna side.