Category: Piedmont destinations and itineraries

3 good reasons why it is worth living in the Granda Hello, all my Slowdays friends! We are on the verge, a few hours and we will say goodbye to the old 2019 to welcome the new year, 2020. We want to close the year with a special article, a few weeks ago the Province of Cuneo appeared in 21st place on the quality of life of Sole24Ore, qualified as a city where you live better than the whole Piedmont. We at Slowdays can only be happy with this wonderful result and we would like to give you 3 good reasons why the Granda is worth visiting. 1. Art and culture The Province of Cuneo, in 2018, won the 47th place in the ranking concerning culture and leisure in Italy. Cuneo is one of the richest areas if we talk about history and art, there are numerous UNESCO World Heritage Sites scattered around the Granda; there are 153 cultural institutes, museums, museum-houses, picture galleries, castles, naturalistic, archaeological and feudal sites, palaces and villas, ecomuseums, churches, chapels and abbeys. Every single city is a bearer of history and art, imaginative legends and amusing anecdotes. In Granda you never stop learning! 2. Wine & Food Hundreds are the wine cellars and wineries scattered around the Granda, important names can be found between Langhe and Roero: Ceretto, Borgogno, Fontanafredda and many others. The territory of the Granda gives the producers high quality wines, such as the Great Barolo and Barbaresco. There are many events related to the wine world that the Granda hosts during the year, the most renowned is certainly Vinum. Depending on the seasonality, however, every town and city organizes fairs and festivals. One of the most important fairs on a national level is the truffle fair, which is held annually

A day to discover the Sacra of Saint Michael. One hour and twenty minutes from the Langhe. 20 minutes from Turin. I dedicate the summer months to broadening my horizons and I am convinced that to do so it is not necessary to go so far away from home. It is always said that "the locals" are the ones who know their territory best, but I would like to launch a provocation: "Is that true?". Certainly a "local", a resident of the place will be able to recommend a good restaurant, maybe give you good practical advice on how to avoid traffic, but are we also sure that he has visited and deepened the places "not to be missed" of its territory? Well, I don't think so! At the venerable age of my 40's and something, I decided just today to visit that absolute wonder of the Sacra of Saint Michael, in the province of Turin, at the gates of the Susa Valley. I can't thank my work enough because it stimulates me (does it force me?) to go exploring before proposing new goals. Otherwise too often I have postponed extraordinary visits. The added value of the Guide, especially LOCAL. My job has also taught me that "with the guide is better", just another experience! And so I asked Valentina, an expert and friendly guide who lives at the foot of the Sacra, to be my guide. The day was spectacular but it must be said that the Sacra of St. Michael shows its charm even wrapped in fog or covered by snow! I already want to make a jump up in winter, maybe for the Christmas celebration in the Abbey ... I can not imagine the incredible atmosphere that you could breathe up there! The Sacra of St. Michael

In this blog, we talk a lot about Langhe and Piedmont ... but sometimes we also talk about me, Claudia, the creator of SlowDays. I like to call myself a local consultant but also a travel artisan and since the end of the year is typically a time of balance: I feel the need to draw the boundaries of what I do. In this fast-paced world with continuous and constant inputs from all over the world that can distract us, sometimes it can be difficult to explain what you are doing. You are not always able to communicate your role and your profession in the right way. We are in the age of new jobs, those that no longer define themselves with a word, those that are invented day by day. And if sometimes, answering the question "What do you do?" can be fun and you feel part of a world that evolves, other times you have doubts: "But am I offering something that really matters?" and "How do I explain my work so that you don't expect something from me that I can't give?". Doubts come because the world of tourism to which I have approached about three years ago is something enormous and boundless. There are countless ways to propose trips, so you find yourself thinking that what you do is not enough and that you could/should offer more, in a different way. Maybe you could standardize your offer so that you can serve more customers. Or you could expand and offer other regions, obviously in a more superficial way... And there are days when what you have "created" and " conceived" seems little to you, because after all it is not so difficult to find a room on the web, book a restaurant and a tasting in the

Undecided about holidays? Come to Monferrato! Relax, good food, blue skies and a lot, but a lot... green! Have you ever thought of organizing a holiday, an out-of-town trip or a weekend immersed in the beautiful territories of Monferrato? No? So, hold fast, because today I am going to talk about that! We go for a walk through the rolling hills of Monferrato, always in a slow way and observing with plenty of detail everything that lives around us. WHERE THE "MONFERRATO" IS LOCATED The Monferrato is divided into 4 parts: The Casalese Monferrato, which includes the area of Casale Monferrato and Valenza         Low Monferrato of Asti, which includes the area from Villanova d'Asti to Moncalvo         High Asti Monferrato, which includes the area of Canelli, Nizza Monferrato, and Costigliole d'Asti         High Monferrato of Acqui Terme, Ovada, and Gavi Surely in a weekend, it is impossible to visit everything, but all these territories have one thing in common! Here they are: the landscape, which you can see everywhere, offers a variety of views, including the typical vineyards, from which originate the fine wines of Piedmont, such as Moscato d'Asti, Barbera d'Asti and Monferrato or Malvasia di Casorzo, the romantic hilly expanses, which are the protagonists of the whole panorama, the shady forests, but especially the ancient villages and castles that have survived and preserved to this day! WHAT DO I RECOMMEND YOU NOT TO MISS? Asti. The capital of Monferrato is Asti, which boasts Roman origins (Hasta was the name given to it by the ancient Romans), as evidenced by the ancient walls still visible in many parts of the city. The city was also an important center of trade and banking, just in the Middle Ages, in fact, was enriched with many