Piedmont — uncrowded destinations — page 4

Near Biella, the Ricetto di Candelo is a maze of alleys and two hundred stone houses where medieval peasants safeguarded their harvest.

At the foot of Monte Rosa, above Alagna Valsesia, a route through narrow gorges and alpine tarns, among untouched Walser villages and deep silence.

At the foot of Monte Rosa, the larch houses of Pedemonte guard eight centuries of Walser culture, without the ski-lift queues.

Behind the gates of the Quadrilatero Romano, in Turin, silent courtyards and Baroque staircases open up a stone's throw from the Mole.

Just steps from Piazza Castello, Turin's Cavallerizza Reale preserves the Baroque eighteenth-century stables in the silence of its courtyard.

A little-visited UNESCO heritage site, the Sacro Monte di Belmonte offers baroque chapels, woods and a sweeping view over the Piedmontese plain.

The largest wilderness area in the Alps is in Piedmont, an hour from the crowded Lake Maggiore. And almost no one goes there.

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