A tour to discover some of the most picturesque in the area of ​​the 1st capital of Italy. Awesome views, ranging from the Alps to the hills, will accompany you in the visit of small villages perched on secluded "bric" (peak). This area is permeated by history; by countless medieval castles to the signs of the '900 wars, in every corner you can immerse yourself in the past.
Land of traditions and rituals still well rooted as well as a rich culinary culture. Do not be surprised, therefore, if pedaling encounter fairs, flea markets and craft boutiques. Be inspired by the slow passage of time and holy sites where you can see the signs of history, art and culture. A trip to the body and the spirit!

DAY N°1

ARRIVE TO TURIN Individual arrival to Turin, setup in the hotel for the overnight stay and free supper.

DAY N°2

FROM TURIN TO SCIOLZE: 19 KM; D+ 450 M
If you are early you will have time to make a brief excursion for the city for then to reach, flanking the river Po, the characteristic Dentera*; a historical conga line that connects the city to the Basilica will directly bring you to Superga. From here, you can enjoy some sight in Turin in his/her entirety and to appreciate the alpine chain that surrounds her/it. You will admire the Basilica that will project back you in the time, between culture and history, discovering besides curiosity, legends and anecdotes of the great Real dynasty of the Savoias. From the Basilica you will depart to the time of the "the Pino's panning", a sinuous absorbed road in the green of the "natural Park of the Hill of Superga", that will give you marvelous foreshortenings on the city encircled from the Alps.
With the clear sky, you can admire the tallest peaks still hooded by the snow of it. The different ones salt go down they will slowly accompany you I pour the country to the feet of the hill to arrive in the small commune of Sciolze where will stop you for the night in a delicious local structure! A regenerating supper to base of typical dishes and a paper of the good autochthonous wines they wait you. Supper and overnight stay in characteristic rural tourism / b&b.
 

DAY N°3

From SCIOLZE TO COCCONATO: 33 KM; D+ 980 M
After a rich and energetic breakfast divided in saddle to your bikes for streets that races on the thread of steep hills that you/they lean out on the southern and oriental part of the Piedmont. Binding but gratifying salts you go down they will conduct you in a sacred place but as many magic; the abbey of Saint
Maria of Vezzolano, a religious building in Gothic and Romanesque style, among the most important medieval monuments in the Piedmont. You narrates both builds on to want of Charles Magno. A visit inside the abbey will make you dip in the dark atmosphere of the medieval and if you will be fortunate, you would be able to find in concerts or you work religious that the visit they will make even more exciting.
Inside the abbey you/he/she can be admired her/it "permanent Show of the Romanesque one" prepared by the Superintendence for the Historical and Artistic Goods of the Piedmont, that he/she offers the most complete documentation on the traceable Romanesque art to Vezzolano. Gone up again in saddle the road it continues with to a follow him of salts you go down up to conduct you in the splendid medieval suburb of Passerano dominated by the homonym castle. Here we recommend a regenerating standstill for then to face the long slope that will make you earn the splendid sight on the low whole Monferrato. Compliments! You have faced one of the slopes more tastes than the zone now deserved you some rest tasting the best wines of the local agricultural firms.


Welcome to Cocconato! Known as her "coast of the Monferrato" for his/her climax mild, for its Coffees and famous Restaurants and for his/her altitude of 491 mt. that it makes her/it one of the points taller than the low Monferrato astigiano. Dinner and overnight stay in rural tourism / b&b.

DAY N°4

FROM COCCONATO TO COCCONATO:
36,5 KM; D+ 850 M
Done sleep well? You, true? Then ready to penetrate you in a run characterized from the discovery of ancient suburbs, castles and vineyards that are alternated to woods of beech trees and chestnut trees. Earth of hypocrites and soft hills radiated by the sun and surrounded to west from the splendid Alpine chain that goes down toward the Liguria dominated by the King of Stone (Monviso). Curiosity: it said that the Monviso has been select as image iconographical from the Paramount Pictures.
The first one covers some today's tour it is Murisengo, delicious small village dominated from the ancient castle. Composed by four fractions besides different places that, in their complex, they typically contain her/it in a colored casket of history, culture, architecture, nature and tradition monferrina. Particularly suggestive it is the ancient inhabited suburb castled on the central promontory. You continue through secondary roads to the shade of the trees to reach Villadeati.
Today common of 500anime sadly became known in the years of the War and the Liberation. In the autumn of the 1944 partisan of the zone they killed in a clash to fire a German soldier and in order to retaliation the Nazis stormed to Villadeati to uncover the partisan but, not finding them, they made imprisoned nine men and the priest that were shot then. Today to Villadeati it is present a monument to the victims in the denominated plaza IX October. You divide down for the road that crosses rows of grapevines to start over climbing and to reach foreshortenings of panorama breathtaking. You reach Montiglio stopping by Rinco and you admire this delight of medieval suburb encircled from two castles.
Montiglio is also known for his/her sundials and for the Fair of the hypocrite, that develops him in autumn. You divide to the time of Cocconato and offer you an appetizer in plaza. Be on vacation!
Supper and overnight stay in rural tourism / b&b.

DAY N°5

FROM COCCONATO TO CORTAZZONE / MONTAFIA:
38 KM; D+ 600 M
Greeted the place of Cocconato with an energetic breakfast you go down toward the valley that will conduct you to Cortanze. A small suburb risen around a stately castle that enjoys of a position unique and privileged stenographical on the surrounding hills. Take you the time to admire the panorama, to turn for the alleys and you visit the Castle. You breathe the history and you taste the delicious pastas of meliga. You are in the mean of the Romanesque run of the Monferrato.
A deviation will bring you to the parish of the holy Nazarios and Celso, monument-doing part of the gold triangle of the Romanesque astigiano together with the churches of S. Lawrence of Montiglio and S. According to of Cortazzone of the XII century. You divide then in direction of Montafia, small famous commune for his/her white hypocrite and some of the most ancient churches of the region. Absolutely not to lose the small Romanesque Church of Bagnasco (fraction of Montafia) included in the minuscule cemetery of the suburb. You cross the fraction Sulphur of Montafia, where from a fountain famous sulphurous water still gushes. Today still, the inhabitants for its beneficent ownerships use it.
You have arrived at the end of the day a warm shower it waits you near the anticipated setup. Dinner and pernottamento in rural tourism.
 

DAY N°6

FROM CORTAZZONE / MONTAFIA TO CHIERI:
42 KM; D+ 650 M
Today you will face new and splendid itineraries. You proceed, among pleasant hills, in the green to the inhabited area of Capriglio whose produced local of excellence is the homonym pepper, garrison Slow-Food. A pleasant secondary road will conduct shortly you to the Sanctuary of Don Bosco, where possible to visit the house native of the Saint is also, the great temple, the museum missionary ethnologic and the museum of life country as well as other attached religious structures. This angle of Piedmont is defined earth of Saints and wines.
A visit with tasting in the social wine cellar of the Freisa will make you understand the why! You will pedal for reaching Moncucco Torinese, center of a going up again castle to the centuries XIV-XV that brings on day itself the evident signs of amplifications and changes going up again to the XVIII / XIX century. Inserted among the "Open Castles" of the Low Piedmont, it entertains the Museum of the Chalk. The zone is in fact rich of cave and the museum it picks up the documenting material the workmanship preindustrial of the chalk and its employment in the traditional architecture of the Low Monferrato beginning from the XVI century up to the beginning of the Nine hundred.
You continue on the thread of these verdant hills through a little beaten street that will give you magnificent foreshortenings on the hills of the chierese. You pass the inhabited area of Arignano, dominated by his/her fortress and, obviously, from his/her castle. You will go down toward the lowland where a series of level roads they cross the cultivated fields to reach Chieri. Still known in medieval epoch as the city of the one hundred towers of the families noble preserve different rests of the Romanesque epoch. Take you some time to visit the center of the city and his/her important buildings, arcs, villas of epoch and numerous churches, from the stately Cathedral to the romantic SanGiorgio. Supper and overnight stay in rural tourism / b&b.

DAY N°7

From CHIERI A Turin: 36 KM; D+ 350 M
Good morning! Today you take back the road in direction of the hill to reach Pecetto Torinese the country of the cherries. In spring the hill becomes flushed of white and rose and in June the banquets they bloom to the sides of the roads and in the plaza of the market whether to be able to taste these and other delicacies of the territory. From here, you reach with a long descent Moncalieri and his/her homonym castle that dominates the completely southern part in Turin and it is a good panoramic balcony on the Alps Cozie and Maritime. Today the castle is center of the I° Battaglione Policemen "Piedmont." The real apartments, on consignment to the Superintendence for the Environmental and Architectural Goods of the Piedmont, I/you/they have been restored and open to the public. From here you go down up to coast along the river Po and in a handful of km you reach in center of Turin. Well returned!