プラドレーヴェスの洞窟・トップ4

I passed by on Friday, September 5, 2025, and the entrance to the castle grounds was closed by a gate. I don't know if it's open to visitors on holidays. However, I bypassed it from the lower part.

Stunning building: former neo-Gothic spinning mill with turrets, perfectly restored. It houses a cultural foundation. It is very beautiful to see from a distance, but it is located at a fairly busy roundabout - viewing from a distance requires taking some risks. However, once you reach the center of the roundabout, it works as a life preserver, and you can have fun taking photos.

Wonderful views from which to contemplate the valley, the village of Dronero and the first high mountains of the Alps.

Nice panoramic point to stop and take photos

Built between 1676 and 1678, it is the oldest remaining silk factory in Europe, among the few in Italy to have been recovered for museum and exhibition purposes. Today it is an irreplaceable witness of this recent past and from a silk factory it has been transformed into a cultural factory. It was later used as a barracks between 1939 and 1943 and today is the Museum of the Piedmontese silk factory. In the 1990s, the Council of Europe defined the Filatoio Rosso as "the most important historical-cultural monument of industrial archeology in Piedmont". The awareness that the Filatoio was a precious asset to be preserved gradually took hold. Today it houses, in addition to temporary art exhibitions, the permanent Piedmontese Silk Factory Museum, with the aim of enhancing not only the building, but an entire territory, becoming a sort of bulwark of Piedmontese historical-economic memory. Info: https://www.filatoiocaraglio.it/

The Filatoio Rosso of Caraglio is the oldest silk factory in Europe. Inside there are the Museum and the Porta di Valle della Valle Grana, or rather the tourist office. It often hosts temporary exhibitions of great cultural and artistic interest.

From near the Castle of Montemale, which despite various vicissitudes has a centuries-old history, you can enjoy an incomparable view of the valleys below.

from the fountain on the right there is the stretch that will take you up to the castle, with a beautiful view of Monttemale and its surroundings, there is also something nice.