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THE CURONE VALLEY

The Curone Valley makes us abandon Tortona and the plain and leads us, along a rather winding distance, to go back on the freshness of the flowing down of the Curone torrent, between sweet hills and colourful orchards, towards the highest tops of the province, the Giarolo, the Ebro and the Chiappo. Tops that emerge from forests of English oaks and chestnut trees, upon steep slopes and that allow, from their alpine paths, to enjoy a sublime panorama, making our view space around towards the four regions that try here nearly to touch themselves: the Piedmont, the Lombardy, the Emilia and the Liguria. At their feet the touristic locality of Caldirola (until a few years ago the skylifts were active during all winter) and the localities of Bruggi, Salogni, Forotondo and Selvapiana. Not to forget the low Curone Valley, from Fabbrica to San Sebastiano and Volpedo

A territory whose relative distance from the ordinary ways of communication has concurred, in the course of the centuries, to enjoy the best conditions to develop a rich and flourishing agriculture that has its most important aspects in the fruits, in the breeding and in the wine cultivation. Peaches, table grapes, plums, cherries and strawberries are well renown and make the territory colourful and lovely. So do the pastures of altitude and the production of the sweetest honey. The trufflles and the wines rival with the ones of Asti.

The rests from the feudal past are not missing, rich of traditions and legends. Among these, the castles of Brignano (with the classic structure of fort with battlements and bridge), of Pozzol Groppo (with all the village around, according to the ancient urbanistic system) and of San Sebastiano, but it is also possible to observe traces of ancient constructions at Gremiasco, Fabbrica, on the ancient “Via del Sale” at Montebore, at Montacuto, Garbagna and, here and there, in all the territory.

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