Month: November 2014
The Cathedral of Asti, Piedmont
The city of Asti is 40 minutes drive from Torino and one hour from Milano. Asti was founded by the Ligurians who named it ‘Ast’ meaning ‘hill’ or ‘high-ground’ in 49 BC. After walking around downtown Asti, looking up at the medieval towers (see our earlier post here), we found the city’s cathedral. The cathedral…
Città delle cento torri, Asti, Piedmont
Continuing with our vacation in Northern Italy … in Piedmont where we were staying, the nearest big town is Asti. Asti has the largest late medieval architectural heritage of the region, in memory of what was once the most powerful town in Piedmont. There are numerous towers, fortified houses, churches, and palaces. The area north-west of the…
Terredavino, Cantine in Barolo
Continuing with our visit to Northern Italy – Barolo – one of the best-known Italian wines – are made in the village of Barolo in Piedmont. Partly because of time-constraint, we did not visit any of the famous winery, like Conterno, … and not even Renato Ratti, owner of the villa where we were staying…
Brasserie Bahnhof Basel
When it comes to finding a place to eat at a train station, the Brasserie at the Basel train station is hard to beat. I stumbled into this place recently. This brasserie is located in the Basel SBB train station on the Swiss side of the border and not the Basel Badischer Bahnhof which handles the German…