Places to Explore

• Abbazia di Sant'Antonio di Ranverso

• Alba

  This small town has a gracious atmosphere and a compact core studded with medieval towers and Gothic buildings. In addition to being a wine center of the region, Alba is known as the "City of the White... (more)

• Aosta

• Asti

  Asti is best known outside Italy for its wines—excellent reds as well as the famous sparkling white spumante—but its strategic position on trade routes at Turin, Milan, and Genoa has given it... (more)

• Bard

• Breuil-Cervinia/The Matterhorn

• Castello Fénis

• Cogne and the Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso

• Courmayeur/Monte Bianco

• Rivoli

• Sacra di San Michele

• Saluzzo

  The russet-brick town of Saluzzo—a flourishing medieval center and later seat of a Renaissance ducal court—is a well-preserved gem with narrow, winding streets, frescoed houses, Gothic churches... (more)

• Sestriere

  In the early 1930s, before skiing became a more egalitarian sport, the patriarch of the FIAT automobile dynasty had this resort built to cater to the elite. The resort has two distinctive tower hotels... (more)

• St. Vincent

• Turin

  Turin—Torino, in Italian—is roughly in the center of Piedmont/Valle d'Aosta and 128 km (80 mi) west of Milan; it's on the Po River, on the edge of the Po Plain, which stretches eastward all... (more)

• Venaria Reale