Alba

Alba is nowdays a lively, vital city surrounded by gentle rolling hills and beautified by gardens and tree-lined avenues.

Alba is known for its beauty, its curious streets, renowned for its industries and its delicacies, including truffles and wine, now sold worldwide.

A major international tourist flow pours in autumn and in spring, when Alba held the International Fair of the White Truffle of Alba, dedicated to its most precious product, and the National Fair Vinum, showcase and tasting area of ​​great wines from the territory and the famous gastronomy.

A dense program of cultural, sporting and social events cover the entire year.
The specialization of the highest level, puts the agricultural sector in competition with the most prestigious wine regions in the world, while the business fabric, healthy and diversified, guarantees the city economic and social stability. The rest is done by the scenery!

Nestled in the beautiful natural scenery of the Lower Langa at 172 m high in the province of Cuneo, the city of hundred towers - like Alba is also called-, is today a vital and active town, surrounded by eleven harmonious hills, winding green waves broken from time to time by the line of a tower or thickcastles: despite having suffered throughout history different looting, Alba, as its surroundings, has managed to maintain almost intact its medieval profile.

Today, of a hundred towers, which were a symbol of the power of local lords, there are only a dozen all located within the perimeter of the old town. In the city and its hinterland are located important industries of international importance: first of all the Ferrero SpA, leader in Europe and worldwide in the confectionery field, the Miroglio Group, in the fashion and textile field, theMondo in the field of flooring , toys, and motor-yacht and the Società San Paolo in publishing, companies that make Alba a city known and appreciated throughout the world.