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Tour Itinerary
Day 1: Depart from home / Fly overnight to Turin Depart from home for Italy. The particulars of your arrival overseas are detailed with your flight itinerary. |
Day 2: Arrive in Turin VBT Air Package guests: Upon arrival at the Turin airport, claim your luggage and exit through the customs area. A VBT representative meets you outside and helps you transfer to your hotel. The representative will be holding a VBT sign. |
Day 3: Meet Trip Leaders in Turin / Transfer to Canale / Hunt for truffles VBT No-Air Package guests: Your tour starts at 12:30 pm at your Turin hotel. Your Trip Leaders will be in the lobby wearing VBT staff garments. Please have lunch before meeting them. If your arrival at our Turin hotel is later than 12:30 pm or if you are delayed, please call the hotel and ask the front desk to pass the message on to your VBT Trip Leaders. |
Day 4: Ride to Pollenzo / The Wine Bank / Discover Langhe Wake up and enjoy a hearty breakfast, featuring jams prepared on site and a homemade selection of cookies prepared by the pastry chef with “nocciola gentile del Piemonte,” a locally grown hazelnut: Try a Brut e Bon (“ugly and good”), a Langa kiss or Meliga and Code di Gatto cookie – or one of each! |
Day 5: Ride among hilltop villages / Discover Barolo / Visit Alba Today’s route passes through beautiful hamlets. During an inspiring reel, marvel at incredible views of manicured vineyards and castles. You will also cycle by the region’s rectangular cascine farmhouses, unique to Piedmont. The longer sides of these buildings face the sun, for warmth in winter and are embellished with an arcaded terrace, stone floors, and iron railings overflowing with colorful flowers. You will cycle by some of the best known cascine, home to wine makers, and take in spectacular views of Verduno, Roddi and other hilltop villages crowned by castles. |
Day 6: Cycle Piedmont vistas to Grinzane Cavour / Explore Fontanafredda historical winery Today more of rural Piedmont unfolds. After breakfast, ride through beautiful, hilltop Serralunga d’Alba. Overseen by a majestic castle, this tidy village seems frozen in time. Later, cycle past the headquarters of Fontanafredda, a historic Italian winery. Its cellars are among the 100 finest in the world. If you have time, browse its unique library or stroll the trails of its vast park, the Wood of Thoughts, past centuries-old trees, a lake and spots to meditate. |
Day 7: Explore Barbaresco / Ride to Canelli / Pizza making After breakfast, take a 30-minute shuttle to the start of our route: the charming hilltop village of Barbaresco. Famous for its eponymous wine made from Nebbiolo grapes, the town’s small former church hosts the Enoteca Regionale. |
Day 8: Ride to Mombaruzzo / Quaranti and Castel Rocchero / Tour a grappa plant Today, your choice of routes include a more relaxed and easy loop, a spectacular hilly ride with sweeping vistas, or both. The countryside south of Asti, in the Monferrato region, is dotted with sleepy hilltop villages. Explore it your own way, and you’ll rejoin the group in Mombaruzzo at the fascinating grappa distillery plant of the Berta family. During your visit, you will learn about grappa, the popular Italian distillate produced from grape pomace. You will learn how the fragrant beverage is made and how its name is protected by Italy and the European Union. After your tour, savor a fresh and delicious lunch, featuring some of Piedmont’s great local cheeses and local specialties like Vitello Tonnato and Monferrina. After, you can sample the Berta family’s own amaretti cookies, a specialty in Mombaruzzo. Their secret ingredient is armelline, bitter apricot kernels. |
Day 9: Transfer to Rapallo / VBT No-Air Package ends VBT No-Air Package guests: After breakfast you will be transferred by private motorcoach to the railway station of Alessandria, arriving at approximately 9:30 am. Your tour ends here, and frequent train connections can take you back to Turin’s Porta Nuova station in about an hour. You are responsible for your own train travel and transfer to the airport for your flight home. |
Day 10: Depart for home After breakfast* this morning, you will transfer to the Genoa airport (approximately 40 minutes, depending on traffic) for your departing flight. Please ensure you are ready in the hotel reception area at the designated transfer time**. |
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