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Piemonte Gourmet An unexpected experience Piemonte If you are looking for your place of the soul, you stellar cuisine, able to convey the many souls of are at home. Welcome to Torino and Piemonte. Piemonte at the table. From the art cities to the 34 Orange Flag Here authenticity is a lifestyle that offers unique Municipalities, from the 14 most beautiful experiences, for sustainable tourism, at a slow villages in Italy in Turin: in the double UNESCO and accessible pace. Why choose? “capital” (home of the Royal Residences and Among the Alps, hills, lakes and plains, 94 Creative City for Design) ranging from antiquity ASIA protected areas and more than 20 thousand to Romanesque, from the Baroque to the avant- EUROPE NORTH km of trekking and cycle-hiking trails, there is garde of contemporary, up to the beautiful AMERICA no shortage of proposals in every season. Royal Residences of Piemonte, UNESCO World TORINO, PIEMONTE Then, culture, but also classy shopping and the Heritage Sites as the Vineyard Landscapes simple perfection of food and wine, made of of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato and the 7 natural products and quality, classic dishes and Sacred Mounts. AFRICA How to get there SOUTH AMERICA BY PLANE BY CAR AUSTRALIA Airport of Torino A dense network of highways connects all the major Torino Airport cities of Piemonte, Italy, France and Switzerland. www.aeroportoditorino.it A4 Torino - Milano - Venezia - Trieste Airport of Milan www.satapweb.it/a4-torino-milano Milano Malpensa www.milanomalpensa-airport.com A5 Torino - Aosta PIEMONTE www.sav-a5.it Airport of Rome Roma Fiumicino A6 - A10 Torino - Savona - Ventimiglia www.autostradadeifiori.it TORINO www.adr.it/fiumicino A21 Torino - Piacenza Airport of Cuneo ITALY www.satapweb.it/a21-torino-piacenza Cuneo-Levaldigi www.aeroporto.cuneo.it A26 Genova - Gravellona Toce www.autostrade.it BY TRAIN A32 Torino - Bardonecchia www.sitaf.it High-speed trains connect Piemonte with Milan and the main Italian cities, along with France and Switzerland. Trenitalia www.trenitalia.com Italo Torino and Piemonte, www.italotreno.it a surprise every day Every other year Alba Creative City in Piemonte the of Gastronomy international events UNESCO Terra Madre - Salone del Gusto and Cheese SVIZZERA 46 Michelin-starred www.salonedelgusto.com cheese.slowfood.it restaurants A journey through The agri-food heritage VERBANIA the flavours of Piemonte BIELLA A favourite destination for gourmets, Piemonte UNESCO: from the red wines such as Barolo, NOVARA offers authentic multi-sensorial experiences Barbaresco, Nebbiolo, Dolcetto, Barbera, 14 Protected Denomination of Origin Products (PDO) based on an ancient artisan knowledge and the Ghemme, Gattinara and Brachetto d’Acqui, to VERCELLI high quality products: chocolate, PGI hazelnuts, the white wines Roero Arneis, Erbaluce, Gavi, excellent meats and the rice from Vercelli, Alta Langa and Asti Spumante. There is also the Novara and Biella, along with delicious artisan highlyprestigious traditional production of craft 9 Protected Geographical Indication Products (PGI) TORINO cheeses. A true star is the White Truffle of beers and the vermouth. On the Wine, Cheese Alba, which makes of a steaming risotto or a and Honey Roads, Piemonte shows its most plate of raw meat an ecstasy for the palate. This authentic soul, made up of people, stories and ALESSANDRIA 342 Traditional Products – PAT ASTI versatile land offersDOCG and DOC labels, a love for the land, which is home to Slow Food, PAT many of which are produced in the Vineyard the international movement founded in 1986 in Landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato Bra (Cuneo) for an «good, clean and fair» food. ALBA 18 Controlled and Guaranteed Denomination of Origin – DOCG and 41 DOCG DOC Controlled Denomination of Origin – DOC great wines CUNEO MAR MEDITERRANEO CASTELMAGNO PDO This is a pressed cheese with CHEESES semi-hard paste of raw cow’s milk with possible addition Discover Piemonte with its huge wealth of sheep’s and/or goat’s milk produced in the Municipalities of cheeses: their flavours and aromas, of Castelmagno, Pradleves territory of production, the history, legends and Monterosso Grana in the Cuneo Province. and traditions that they represent. A vast variety of productions, among which we can find10 PDO, mainly undertaken from small and medium breeders throughout hilly, GRANA pre-alpine and alpine regions producing the PADANO PDO milk of a number of breeds of cows, sheep Grana Padano is a hard cheese produced with raw cows’ milk, and goats many of which are native to the from a cooked curd that is area. slowly ripened. BRA PDO GORGONZOLA PDO This cheese comes from the A soft, fat, raw cheese mountains of Piemonte and produced in the Sweet plains bordering with the and Spicey version, it is Marittime and Cozie Alps and it characterised by green is produced in the Tender and marbling due to processing Hard varieties. with moulds. Protected Denomination MURAZZANO PDO ROBIOLA DI of Origin and Protected Murazzano is a cheese ROCCAVERANO PDO from sheep’s milk, at time Is a fresh cheese subjected integrated with cow’s milk, to aging or ripening and it is Geographical Indication and is produced in many produced with unpasteurised Municipalities of the Province whole goats’ milk, or sheep’s of Cuneo. and cows’ milk obtained exclusively from the same products farmstead. OSSOLANO PDO TALEGGIO PDO Protected Designation of Origin products The close connection between a foodstuff Cheese from the far north of Taleggio cheese is produced (PDO) are those for which the raw material, and its geographical production area makes its Piemonte, made exclusively with whole cows’ milk, either transformation, processing and ageing belong to characteristics completely different from those of from either raw or pasteurised raw or pasteurised. whole cow’s milk, with a specific geographical areas which give particular another product belonging to the same category firm and springy paste. It is and incomparable features to a given food but produced in a different geographical area. matured for a minimum of specialty. sixty days counting from the date when the milk is first processed. Protected Geographical Indication products Finally, the Traditional Specialties Guaranteed (PGI) are those for which the raw material and/ (TSG) are those products or foods obtained or transformation and/or processing and/or with a method of production, processing or a RASCHERA PDO TOMA PDO ageing belong to a given geographical area which composition that correspond to a traditional Raschera is a cheese produced PIEMONTESE in the Cuneo Province, with Toma Piemontese is a cheese gives them particular features. In this case the practice, or those products or foods obtained milk produced and ripened made with cow’s milk and connection between products and peographical from raw materials or ingredients used at an altitude of over 900 m produced in the Alps of above sea level and is labelled Piemonte mountain area. areas can simply consist in the products’ traditionally. as a “Mountain Product”. reputation; their raw material can be obtained even outside the defined area. MORTADELLA CASTAGNA CUNEO BOLOGNA PGI PGI FRESH MEATS A charcuterie product of VEGETABLES, The Cuneo Chestnuts are cooked ham made with a FRUITS fresh or dried fruits, obtained The high reputation of Piemontese meats is mixture of pork meats. from chestnut trees (Castanea AND CEREALS sativa) that stand out for their a solid reality. Piemonte has a large livestock sweet and delicate taste and patrimony, with its varied and interesting range for the particular crispness of Piemonte’s abundance of fruit and the epicarp. of livestock such as sheep, goats and poultry vegetables is represented by its biodiversity, of various types and breeds, most of which the approximately 90 traditional products are native. Traditional breeding and feeding and the production of quality-recognised SALAMINI ITALIANI FAGIOLO CUNEO PGI systems employed in small and medium goods, expressing the high levels of livestock farms, found in hilly, pre-alpine and ALLA CACCIATORA PDO The Cuneo bean indicates quality and food safety standards, heavy exclusively the fruit of some alpine areas with excellent soil and climate Salamini Italiani alla Cacciatora are part of the traditional investments in research and innovation, ecotypes, and varieties of climbing beans produced in conditions to ensure the wellbeing of animals Lombard food maintained up by a widespread system of agronomic and results in a rich, varied manufacturing of fresh to present times and the name the Province of Cuneo. derives from the traditional environmentally-sound cultivation practices. meats and meat products. These include rations hunters used to bring Community recognition of 2 PDO and 4 PGI. along in their knapsacks during their excursions. The rice, symbol of Piedmontese cereal production, has been a great success: Riso di Baraggia Biellese e Vercellese CRUDO SALAME is the only Italian Protected Designation RISO DI BARAGGIA DI CUNEO PDO CREMONA PGI of Origin Rice, assurance of cultivar BIELLESE E The Crudo di Cuneo is obtained VERCELLESE PDO The production of salami is authenticity and production traceability only from fresh pork thigh, strictly related to the presence The designation refers to the taken from animals reared of local pig livestock farms that from the field to the table. It is produced in various types of cereals of the in conformity with the best trace back to Roman times. 28 municipalities in the varieties Arborio, Oriza sativa

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