The Hill Town of Piedmont - Piemonte Agri Qualità

The rural and agrarian landscape

The Roero area is an ideal junction between the plains of Carmagnola and Racconigi (to the west) and the land exploitation of the territory, which has been deeply affected by the presence of the rocky fault line called Rocche: a sort of woody spinal column, with an extraordinary landscape that cuts across the entire region, defining two distinct macro-areas. The first, centred in Ceresole d'Alba, slowly descends towards the Po plain; the second towards the Tanaro valley, consists of an autonomous system, rich in micro-landscapes of small valleys and ridges, similar to the morphology and settlement systems of the Langhe region in front of it.
The area is full of steep hill ridges and covered by woods in the extremely sloping zones.

The Roero, a sunken area abandoned after WWII, is today undergoing a process of farming recovery, oriented towards the reintroduction of the typical vineyards (Roero and Arneis) and fruit groves. There is a certain conservation of the historical identity of its sites characterized by a substantial presence of cattle and hog rearing activities.

The settlement system is highly marked by the morphological structure of the area and by the dynamics of infrastructural and jurisdictional rearrangements of medieval times, with most part of the towns that already existed in the 11th century.
Between the 12th and 13th centuries there was a widespread activity that recovered or improved the castles, promoted especially by the Bishops of Asti, at the rocky ridge of Rocche, followed by a phenomenon of the fortification of the valley floor towns that were located along the roadways leading from Asti to Bra. The 13th century saw the founding of the Villanovan towns of San Damiano, Canale and Montà which created the key points of the roadways.
From then on, despite the smooth dominion of the Roero family of Asti, the area remained more or less the same, though of marginal importance with respect to the main flows of traffic and business relationships.

Point of landscape observation

Municipality	Place	Point of Observation	Point of Observation	What to see
Monticello	Old city centre	Castle courtyard	Wide Panorama	South-western Roero hills

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Recipe

Coniglio all'Arneis

Preparation

Tagliate a pezzi il coniglio e mettetelo in un tegame sul fuoco affinché "faccia l'acqua", ovvero ceda gli umori sgradevoli.
Intanto tritate cipolla, carota, rosmarino e salvia. Gettate l'acqua del coniglio, disponete il trito, l'aglio e l'alloro insieme ai pezzi di carne e fate rosolare il tutto nell'olio. Salate, bagnate con il vino e lasciate evaporare; continuate la cottura a fuoco medio per 45 minuti, aggiungendo di tanto in tanto un po' di brodo. Servite caldo.
In questa ricetta il coniglio è bagnato in cottura con l'Arneis, uno dei pochi bianchi secchi della valle del Tanaro. Il vitigno omonimo è coltivato, come la favorita, sulla riva sinistra del Tanaro, opposta a quella della Langa albese, ed è - come il Roero, rosso da uve nebbiolo - un vino a denominazione di origine controllata.