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Torre dell'Albarola

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Torre dell'Albarola

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Location: Lerma, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

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1. Torre dell'Albarola – War Memorial loop from Molare

43.7km

03:12

660m

Expert mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. Some portions of the route may require you to push your bike.

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2. Torre dell'Albarola loop from Castelletto d'Orba

25.4km

02:16

450m

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3. Torre dell'Albarola – View of Lago della Lavagnina loop from San Giacomo

32.5km

02:51

640m

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Claudio

June 28, 2022

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, from which the name of today's Abbazia farmhouse derives

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Location: Lerma, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

Torre dell'Albarola

1. Torre dell'Albarola – War Memorial loop from Molare

2. Torre dell'Albarola loop from Castelletto d'Orba

3. Torre dell'Albarola – View of Lago della Lavagnina loop from San Giacomo

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