Since 2014 it has been a UNESCO site as part of Piedmont’s wine country, and since 2018 it has become part of “the most beautiful villages in Italy“. The production of DOC wines in the area are known throughout Italy and are gaining ground abroad, but if you go to Cella Monte, a small…
For whatever reason you may have come, you can’t leave Biella without first visiting the historic Menabrea Brewery, Italy’s oldest active brewery. It was founded back in 1846 by the Menabrea family, a family of Walser culture, already brewers in Aosta. Since then the brewery for this excellent beer has remained firmly anchored in…
Do you know that in Piedmont there is a citadel where contemporary art makes itself available to society, to permeate it in all its settings and to improve it with acts of co-responsibility and awareness? It is Cittadellarte in Biella, one of those places where you absolutely must go. Can you imagine the perfect…
A great birthday is coming to Turin, it will be in June, the organizers say, but they are not letting out anything else…. This year we celebrate the centenary of a paragon of excellence from Turin. A creator of icons of style and elegance. A company that helped bring the trademark “Made-in-Italy” to the…
To fill a rainy spring day in Turin with colour, there is nothing better than a fine art exhibition. On the 16th of April, the De Chirico exhibition “Neo-metaphysics and contemporary art” was inaugurated at the GAM Torino and is an absolutely must-see event. The GAM Torino itself is one of those Turin museums…
Inaugurated on April 13th, and from this event onwards, going to the market for the people of Turin will never be quite the same. In Porta Palazzo, which has been home to Europe’s largest outdoor market since 1835, the new Mercato Centrale Torino (Turin Central Market in English) was opened, based upon a successful…
For those who don’t know, this was a famous TV commercial slogan for the Italians. It was the 80’s and the Lavazza commercials were effective, recognizable, and enjoyable, even for us children who in reality didn’t even care about coffee … At that time Lavazza, which was already a well-established, well-known and well-loved brand,…
When I lead tour groups around the city of Turin and we arrive in front of the seventeenth-century Palace of the Noble College, which now houses the Egyptian Museum, one of the most recurring questions is: “Why is there such an important Egyptian Museum here in Turin?” People are astonished to discover that the…
If you are looking for ideas to enrich a free day or if you have seen my video and would like more information, read on, today I will talk about a wonderful trip out-of-town to Albugnano, in Monferrato. The hills of the Monferrato are distinguished by their exceptional, environmental views that are very much…
Yesterday, in a perfect moment whilst I was enjoying my perfect aperitivo in a perfect place with my perfect husband, I started looking around at all of the people who had the same bright idea as us, enjoying the aperitivo time …. when a question came to mind: How many of these people and…