Tourism has been my passion and my profession since 1990. I began in La Plata, Argentina, at Euromar Turismo, the agency owned by my beloved father, Orazio Filippo Greco, before continuing in Italy with Andina Viaggi. Merlintravel grows from that experience and the desire to keep exploring and sharing the world. The journey continues…
Let’s see where it takes us.
Tourism has been my passion and my profession since 1990. I began in La Plata, Argentina, at Euromar Turismo, the agency owned by my beloved father, Orazio Filippo Greco, before continuing in Italy with Andina Viaggi. Merlintravel grows from that experience and the desire to keep exploring and sharing the world. The journey continues…
Let’s see where it takes us.
Royal Turin, vineyard hills, sacred mountains and lakes at the foot of the western Alps.
Piedmont is a meeting of court, mountain and cultivated hill.
The region extends from Alpine passes to the Po plain and from Savoy’s capital to Langhe, Roero and Monferrato. Its identity is built through Roman cities, communes, dynastic statecraft, industry, wine landscapes and minority Alpine cultures.
Piedmont cannot be explained only through Turin. Its historical fabric connects Celtic and Roman territories, medieval marquisates, Savoy residences, sacred landscapes and modern industrial transformation.
Pre-Roman communities and Roman roads established a dense network between the Alps, Po and Ligurian approaches.
Asti, Saluzzo, Monferrato and other centres developed distinct medieval powers and urban cultures.
From a transalpine dynasty grew a territorial state whose residences, fortifications and administration reshaped the region.
Turin became a planned court city of axes, squares, churches and palaces with European ambitions.
Piedmont-Sardinia provided institutions, armies and political leadership central to Italian unification.
Automotive Turin, design, migration and post-industrial culture added a modern layer to the royal city.
The route begins in Turin but radiates towards the western valleys, Monte Rosa, the lake country, rice plains and UNESCO vineyard hills.
Map markers identify the main places covered by the guides.
Each circuit follows a territorial logic: dynastic power, Alpine passage, waters and gardens, or working agricultural landscapes.
Turin, Venaria, Stupinigi, Rivoli and Racconigi form a dispersed map of Savoy ceremony and government.
Val di Susa, Walser valleys and Occitan communities reveal pilgrimage, fortification and transalpine exchange.
Orta, Maggiore and the Sacri Monti connect gardens, devotional theatre and views towards the Alps.
Langhe, Roero and Monferrato join hill settlement, cellars, seasonal labour and internationally recognised landscapes.
Every gateway now leads to a complete guide; Turin opens first as an independent ten-guide city atlas.
Roman grid, Savoy capital, Baroque institutions, the Po, museums and the industrial metropolis across ten complete guides.
Open TurinRoman Alba, medieval towers, vineyard ridges, castles, Pollenzo, working agriculture and literary memory.
Open Langhe and AlbaCommunal cities, Canelli’s underground architecture, infernot, sacred hills and a fortified river corridor.
Open Monferrato and AstiLake transport, Borromean islands, monastic memory and chapel routes staged across water and mountain terrain.
Open the lakes and Sacri MontiRomanesque and civic architecture meet canals, flooded fields, cascine and the working ecology of the eastern plain.
Open Novara and VercelliRoman and medieval Ivrea, Olivetti’s industrial city, textile water, Oropa and the long Serra moraine.
Open Ivrea and BiellaArcaded Cuneo, a marquisate city, abbeys and royal estates open toward Monviso and inhabited Occitan valleys.
Open Cuneo and SaluzzoRoman routes, abbeys, frontier forts, rail engineering, Waldensian memory and post-2006 mountain infrastructure.
Open Val di Susa and PineroloMonuments matter, but so do languages, crafts, routes, rituals and working landscapes.
A serial UNESCO property makes dynastic power visible across palaces, hunting lodges and gardens.
Chapels, sculpture and natural settings form carefully staged routes of devotion.
Occitan, Francoprovençal and Walser traditions complicate any single image of Piedmontese identity.
Rice, hazelnuts, cheese, truffles and wine emerge from specific soils, labour systems and market towns.
Land, water and ecological systems are read together with the communities that have learned to inhabit them.
Gran Paradiso, Monviso and the high valleys feed rivers and shape cultural borders.
Water management turns the eastern lowlands into a geometric agricultural environment.
Maggiore and Orta create distinct microclimates, gardens and historic travel routes.
Langhe, Roero and Monferrato are cultivated ecosystems maintained through continuous work.
The Hub distinguishes UNESCO serial properties from single monuments and treats Langhe-Roero-Monferrato as a living productive landscape rather than a wine-themed backdrop.
The journey continues.
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