Alba, Piedmont, Italy

What a beautiful town! When planning a trip to the Piedmont region, we wanted to stay in a small town as a home base, and go out each day to explore the region, but have a place that we looked forward to returning to. We stayed in an older part of the city, just a couple of blcoks from the Duomo as well as the University, a restricted traffic zone at night, so it was easy to walk at night, but the streets were not exceptionally narrow either. We settled on Alba and it was a good choice.

In Piedmont, you have roughly three important wine regions. The most famous of these is the Langhe, where Alba is located and is the capital of. The famous Barolo, Barbaresco, and Dolcetto wines are produced in the Langhe. This region is considered to be the best wine region in Italy in terms of quality, the wines that come from here are among the absolute top. If you go a little north from Alba, you will come to the Roero region. Monferrato, which is located a little east of Alba, is the largest wine region. Famous wines such as Asti (named after the city of the same name) and Barbera del Monferrato come from here. Asti was another candidate for staying, but after visiting both, we are very glad that we chose Alba.