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- 3 Jun 2024
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Ketinggian: 149 mi
- ItaliaPiemonteGuareneRuota44°43’51” N 8°3’9” E
Truffle hunting
3 Juni, Italia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
We had a full day around the town of Guarene today. This area is famous for a type of wine called Barolo, which can only be produced in this area of Piedmont, as well has hazelnuts with Ferrero, makers of Nutella, being founded in this area.
It is also known for truffles. Today we went up to the village of Monchiero to visit the property of a truffle producer. They find white and black truffles with the white version being the most sought after. Truffles are a fungus and grow underground on the roots of specific types of trees and under specific conditions. This producer uses hazelnut trees to grow the truffles and dogs to sniff them out.
We parked the bus and went for a walk through the woods. Our guide was Walter and his dog was Leo. It was a very pleasant walk and it wasn’t long before Leo found his first truffle.
We walked through the trees and the woods and all up Leo found three truffles.
After our walk we went up to the main house at the top of the hill overlooking Monchiero and needless to say eating lunch next to a seminary from the 14th century with a view across Piedmont to the alps was pretty sensational!
After a leisurely lunch we went across to the castle at Serralunga. This is also from the 14th century and was a defensive tower built to protect the locals from marauding gangs. The tower was very cleverly designed with lots of means to rain harm down on anyone who tried to attack. The castle was actually breached once at the end of October 1616 by the Spanish. Their sneak attach caught the local soldiers, of which there were only 12, napping so the Spanish took anything of value - mostly tapestries - and left.
Anyway the view was sensational and the history fascinating.
We then headed into the local town of Alba to walk around and have the daily gelato. Really nice old town but it was siesta time so most shops were shut.
Dinner was in a local restaurant near Castiglione Falletto with great views across the vineyards and hazelnut trees.Baca selengkapnya