Piedmont

Piedmont, the 'factory of pleasure'

The land of wine and fine cuisine, of Barolo and truffles, knows how to treat its guests well: from the finest fabrics to luxury jewellery, from Baroque marvels to the lakes that enchanted Dickens and the mountains that the world came to know during the Olympic Winter Games in 2006. To crown all this is culture, art and architecture that only a region that has written the history of Europe can offer: Baroque, art nouveau, the sumptuous royal residences of the House of Savoy, the palaces and castles that have been declared a world heritage site by Unesco, the abbeys, Guarini's chapel that hosts the Holy Shroud are just some examples of a region where even the smallest town has an extraordinary history to tell. more