Monday, June 7, 2010

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Piedmont Provence Lange, step by step. Part II. Serralunga


Serralunga d'Alba - a small, town full of charm, with eye-gaze from afar lock, climbed on top of a hill, at the height of 414 m above sea level. Settlement appeared here during the Construction of the citadel in the period 1340-1357 gg with awnings Falletti the territory belonged to Boniface del Vasto. The castle no one has ever lived, except that soldiers who used it as a military fortification, protection from attacks of enemies. Tower of the castle is particularly rounded shape, good for architecture at that time.

Sera Long, long, narrow tongue, the name given to the settlement because of the shape of its territory, vsposledstvii belonged to the family Del Karretto and Marquis Saluzzo, and then went to the Marquis Falletti di Barolo, and then graphs Baldi of Bra. In 1616. Castle was captured by the family Spagnolo (surname Spagnolo, translated "the Spaniards" reminded me of an interesting wine lovers fact: the famous family of wine producers Gaia, known for its "Barbaresco" 300 years ago, moved to Piedmont. How did intertwined history of European countries!). Today the castle belongs to the state, restoring it when President of the Republic Luigi Einaudi.
Another fact for wine lovers: Serralunga - the birthplace of digestive "Barolo Quinata," I already wrote about it earlier, When told about the wines. This "Barolo" with added sugar, alcohol, spices, among them major - South American tree bark quinine. Initially, used as a cure virtually all diseases, including malaria, one of the inventors of prescription pharmacist Kappellano Giuseppe di Serralunga in the late XIX century was selling "Barolo Quinata" in his Turin pharmacy.

in Serralunga castle we went after tasting a farm holiday Rivett.
And about then, where we went after - the third part of the story.


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