Wine cultural landscape

Wine Cultural Landscapes

Southern Piedmont is dedicated to wine production

This beautiful wine cultural landscape is under consideration by UNESCO for World Heritage status

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The skyline of San Marzano Olivetti in the Monferrato hills

Southern Piedmont is a land dedicated to wine production. The widespread implementation and working of the vineyards, grape-processing in the traditional and distinctive cascina or farmhouses, wine cellars and vaults cut into bedrock; all of these have created an enduring landscape across the Langhe, Monferrato and Roero hills.

As you travel around these areas you see the physical expression of centuries of experience in grape-tending. Historical references to wine go back as far as local written records permit, and these vineyards and their products have been celebrated in the arts and in literature.

Since the most celebrated description of these lands - 'The Moon and the Bonfires' by the locally born writer Cesare Pavese, written just after the Second World War - the political and economic situation has thankfully moved on, but the hills of vineyards, with their characteristic canebreaks and small stone buildings, survive just as they were then, instantly recognisable from his text.

There are vineyard landscapes elsewhere, of course, but what makes the unending succession of terraced hills in Southern Piedmont unique is their geographic extent.

For all of these reasons, this beautiful wine cultural landscape is under consideration by UNESCO for World Heritage status.

Casa della Fontana is situated on the border between the Monferrato and Langhe hills.

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