Leg 15 Cravanzana – Feisoglio
Leg 15 Cravanzana – Feisoglio 197 GTL - Grande Traversata delle Langhe • Leg 15 Cravanzana – Feisoglio 198 Leg 15 Cravanzana – Feisoglio A brief, uphill section from the hazelnut groves to the realm of mushrooms and trufes, immersed in the history of these villages and the authenticity of nature. DISTANCE/PROFILE ELEVATION GAIN DIFFICULTY START FINISH 5,5 km 570 m 695 m BC Itinerary profle 695 m 570 m 0 Km 5,5 Km Cravanzana Feisoglio GTL - Grande Traversata delle Langhe • Leg 15 Cravanzana – Feisoglio 199 GTL - Grande Traversata delle Langhe • Leg 15 Cravanzana – Feisoglio 202 Although the village’s coat of arms bears the image of a goat, Cravanzana Cerretto. This long strip of village runs parallel to the massive Church of is the realm of the hazelnut. Cravanzana has the most beautifully preserved San Lorenzo, which looms over the village in the same way the castle castle of the entire Belbo Valley, partly because so many others have surely once did just to the south, although now only a few stones of the been destroyed, but also because this one is truly monumental. Now foundation remain, the castle having been destroyed during the wars of privately owned, it may be visited on special occasions, such as within the 17th century. the scope of the “Castelli Aperti” (Open Castles) initiative. Its current Outside the town, trees rule the land, both in the untamed woods of form is partly due to restructuring work done in the 17th century, which mushrooms, trufes, wild bore and deer and in the hazelnut groves, transformed the castle into a more comfortable residence with a garden which are as popular here as the vineyards of Nebbiolo grapes in the for the Fontana Family, members of the new aristocracy under the House Bassa Langa.
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