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Location: Lerma, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

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1. Torre dell'Albarola from Casaleggio Boiro

6.58km

01:46

70m

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2. Albarola Tower loop from Silvano d'Orba

16.5km

04:38

330m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Albarola Tower loop from Castelletto d'Orba

11.6km

03:18

260m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Roberto

December 19, 2021

To the north of the town, on the border between Lerma, Silvano and Castelletto d’Orba, remain the ruins of the Torre dell’Albarola. It was part of a defensive sighting system created against Saracen raids around the year one thousand. His task was to pick up the signals coming from Mount Colma and, with bonfires lit on the top, to warn the nearby Gazzolo tower (s. Cristoforo), which would send the alarm to the plain. Those who climb the tower immediately realize the reason for that location: from up there the view sweeps from the Piota valley to the entire Apennine arc, and then down again towards the hills to the Po Valley. Tradition has it that, later, it served as a bell tower for Santa Maria in Prelio, that is, for the Pieve di Silvano d’Orba, as it is located on a hill to the east of it. Towards the end of the seventeenth century the Abbey of San Filippo Neri was built in Albarola, hence the name of today's Abbazia farmhouse.

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Location: Lerma, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

Albarola Tower

1. Torre dell'Albarola from Casaleggio Boiro

2. Albarola Tower loop from Silvano d'Orba

3. Albarola Tower loop from Castelletto d'Orba

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