Piemonte sits in Italy’s north-western corner, enclosed on three sides by the Alps and opening to the east onto the Po plain. It is the birthplace of Barolo and Barbaresco, the home of the white truffle of Alba: the most expensive food in the world by weight: and the region where the Slow Food movement was founded. The Gran Paradiso National Park offers some of the finest alpine walking in the country, with ibex, chamois and golden eagles as regular companions.
