아리냐노‬에서 가장 멋진 ‪12‬개의 동굴

nice village on the Turin hills

Casaforte / castle in a hamlet half-hidden between secondary roads and dirt roads. You have to go there almost on purpose, but it is worth the trip: the castle between the hills and the fields has a fairytale feel, and the houses that surround it, rightly "piled up", give a sense of the Middle Ages. A time machine. Also interesting is the chapel in front of it, closed but well restored on the outside. The castle cannot be visited inside (private), but even just from the outside it is beautiful. However, it is possible to enter the internal courtyard and see the yard and the well, which are wonderful - at least I think you can go in: I went in and no one let the dogs loose on me.

If you go up from Gassino, along the Sp 97, you travel along a beautiful road with never excessive slopes, which winds through a beautiful countryside, even the traffic is not excessive. Very beautiful the view of the surrounding hills, suggestive the castle.

Both the castle and the village are beautiful.

Beautiful village, with church and castle located in an elevated position compared to the passing road. A beautiful walk passes in front of the church and leads to an isolated bell tower. Another road branches off and leads to the castle, at the highest point of the town, which houses a museum and nursery and primary schools. Both from the castle and from the promenade, beautiful views of the surrounding hills. On the promenade, the monuments to the Alpini and the Fallen, and two fountains, both functioning.

Nice little village, which concentrates various points of interest in its centre. First of all the castle, dating back to the 11th century: restored and renovated, so much so that at first I took it for a 19th century neo-Gothic replica! Next, the church of San Giovanni Battista, in front of the castle: an eighteenth-century building then remodeled in the nineteenth century, with a beautiful exposed brick façade, simple and effective. Remarkable, a short distance away, is the Regio Asilo Matta, a nineteenth-century nursery school, which breathes in the scents of De Amicis. On the road towards Turin, in a fork in the road, is the small church of San Rocco, also an eighteenth or nineteenth century neoclassical construction, simple but not to be missed.

Really tiny village, which as is typical of these hill and mountain villages has all the essentials concentrated in the same square: church, town hall, and school. However, it has one feature: not one, but two castles, the Rocca di Arignano (which can be visited, restaurant inside) and the Castello delle Quattro Torri (private, visible only from the outside). It's worth popping by. Outside the village, the landscape of the hills is wonderful.

Beautiful village in the hills, with two castles (one of which can be visited).