Activities
If you are looking for peace and quietness you can have plenty of it: you can borrow some English (or even Italian, Greek and Latin!) books from our small library, or use chessboard; you can become an expert in wine tasting or fine food by visiting the caves and restaurants in the surrounding villages; if you like sport there is a tennis court and a boules court at walking distance, horse riding at 1KM, golf course at 20KM; moreover you can walk in the woods and use our bicycles. The 2006 Turin Olimpic Games sky trails and sky slopes are little over an hour away by car.
In summer we install a five-meter diameter above-ground swimming pool; children they can also use the twin swing, the sandbox and many toys.
The surroundings are very interesting: here are just a few local suggestions:
- Local markets in different villages every day of the week (farmer market every morning from Mon to Sat: Catena Square, Asti; big markets Wed and Sat all day: Alfieri Square and Palio Square, Asti) link link2
- Country festivals all over the region throughout the summer
- The local sports: "tambass or tamburello a muro", boules (petanque)
- Cultural events like "Asti teatro" ("Asti theater") and "Musica nelle Pievi" ("Music in the rural abbeys") in the summer
- Romanesque churches and Vezzolano Abbey (the Abbey was built, according a old story, by Charles the Great) tour in the Asti country
- Alba and the white truffles
- Asti with its medieval towers and monuments
- Asti region grapelands to be inserted shortly in the Unesco World Heritage List
- Mombarone (near Asti) old underground houses photo tour
- Pliocene marine fossil outcrop and a fossil sanctuary near Asti
- Museo di arti e mestieri (old rural society museum) in Cisterna d'Asti
- Sacra di San Michele (Saint Michael’s Abbey) near Torino