Scent of truffle and white wine: the Langhe Tour

Period: all the year
Location: Bologna

Description:

Enjoy truffle hunting and spumante tasting, visit the stunning city of Turin and the Venaria Reale castle and gardens

Categorie:

  • Culture & Music
  • Food & Wine
  • Our Tours

Tags:

  • Gastronomy-gourmet
  • Historical sites
  • Urforgettable experience
  • Wine tasting

DAY 1
Welcome at the Airport with our assistant and transfer to Asti for a gourmet lunch in one of the most ancient local restaurant of the city.In the afternoon
walking guided tour discovering the main seights of the historical city center of Asti. Transfer to the “Great Cathedral” ancient cellars in Canelli and guided visit to the famous cellars for the production of the ASTI SPUMANTE and visit of their best wines. In the evening, transfer to Alba, check in and dinner in a nice restaurant in Alba famous for its typical cousine based on truffle and mushrooms. Overnight at Hotel.

 

DAY 2
Today you will experience the TRUFFLE HUNTING IN THE MONFERRATO AREA. A special occasion that it is worth to remember and to tell in a place where you can share the knowledge of local history and traditions! Welcome, introduction to the trifulau and to his most valuable friends… the truffle dogs! Short explanations of the local traditions and the environment, overview of typical products: wines, cheeses and, of course, truffles varieties and characteristics. Guided tour to the natural truffles grounds, experiencing a real “truffle picking” along a scenic trail with rest areas. Truffle tasting with local fine wines. Opportunity of buying genuine truffles strictly picked in the owned grounds. Transfer to Pollenzo before lunch and visit to the beautiful cellars of the “Banca del Vino di Pollenzo” offering visitors the chance to discover our oenological heritage and to taste the wines from some of the most prestigious wineries. Lunch in a prestigious restaurant nearby. In the afternoon, transfer to the “Faletti” Barolo Castle for a guided tour and time at disposal for visit at leisure to the Regional Winery inside the castle.
Dinner in Alba and overnight.

 

DAY 3
Transfer to Torino, and guided tour. Art and history are very much at home in Turin, and this can be seen by the city’s museums and palazzos, its piazzas, courtyards and churches, its historic relics and avant-garde pieces, its traditions and its progress. You will enjoy the beauty of its historical centre, starting from the Roman Gates to the splendid Baroque Palaces, discovering Piazza Castello with the Royal Palace, Palazzo Madama, and the Cathedral.Dinner in one charming restaurant in Torino downtown and overnight.

 

DAY 4
Visit to the beautiful Venaria Reale Castle a unique environmental and architectural continuum of extraordinary charm, a boundless, varied, spectacular estate where the visitor is inevitably enveloped by magical atmospheres in a context of cultural attractions and multiple leisure pursuits. Guided tour of the Castle and the Gardens. Lunch in the surroundings of Venaria in a Piemontese typical farmhouse.
In the evening, departure.

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