Whether or not you want to taste wine,
ALBA
repays a visit, for its central core of red-brick medieval towers, Baroque and Renaissance palaces and cobbled streets lined with gastronomic shops is one of Piemonte's most alluring. And if you come in October, there's a chance to see the town's hilarious annual donkey race - a skit on nearby Asti's prestigious Palio.
Of things to see, the late-Gothic
Duomo
on the central Piazza Risorgimento ha... [More]