오틸리오 최고의 워킹 & 하이킹 경로

Anti-Saracenic sighting tower, it was part of the military defense set up by Berengario II, king of Italy, around 950. Exceptional panoramic point.

Panoramic point among the vineyards.

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

What a show!

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.