ペローザカナヴェーゼのおすすめMTBライド

It's a course prepared by locals with jumps and banks

Technical and fun route

Nice sign, dedicated exclusively to those who ride bikes

The castle is beautiful but not open to visitors. The view from the park in the square in front of the nearby church is beautiful...

View from the park on the Dora river, on the dam and on the surrounding villages: Villareggia - Cigliano - Saluggia and on clear days up to the Monferrato hills

After crossing Vialfrè along via Roma and via Borghetto, after a trail that runs alongside a fence you find yourself... in a meadow! Luckily, a providential sign guides you, to the left, to the start of the erratic boulders trail, other signs, to follow, show the right path first along an asphalt road, finally, with another left turn at a hairpin bend, back on the right path. Here begins a nice flowing stretch, never difficult (S2 max), but not at all trivial, because the ground, almost always pebbly, requires constant attention when driving. The trail is not critical, in the sense that, even "skipping" some deviations, you still find yourself on other paths almost parallel to the one I took. In the end, all the paths converge almost in the same point... in front of the highway to Aosta: following the trail, other nice paths lead to Villate.

extraordinary place

Fricandò: a typical dish of Piedmontese home cooking and conviviality, which was born in the times when meat was abundant only in the kitchens of the rich, while everyone else had to be resourceful to make the most of the little they could afford. Slow and prolonged cooking, wise use of vegetables and herbs, blended with a good local red wine, and even leftovers or less valuable cuts become tender and tasty. And to obtain a complete and nutritious dish you need simple side dishes that are suitable for absorbing the tasty sauce: polenta, baked potatoes, but obviously also homemade bread to make the "scarpetta". The Trattoria was born in 2019, when Ivo Bellezza and his brother Sergio, after almost twenty-five years of experience in managing a very well-known and popular pub with cuisine, decided to focus on catering and, together with Claudia, Ivo's wife, took over the management of the municipal-owned restaurant in Vialfrè. The name of the trattoria contains their program, which offers traditional Piedmontese cuisine in a familiar and welcoming environment, sometimes revisited, without losing the characteristics of simplicity, craftsmanship and use of local products. Of course, the menu cannot miss the Fricandò, based on lean beef, stewed for at least five hours with potatoes, bay leaves, tomato, in the style of Monforte, the town of origin of Ivo and Sergio's mother. The restaurant's main dish is accompanied by appetizers, first courses, second courses, desserts, all produced in the kitchen of the restaurant, with quality raw materials from selected suppliers of the area. The Fricandò also offers an interesting pizza, obviously in the Piedmontese version, cooked in a pan, and a very well-kept cellar, which highlights the excellent wines of Canavese.