La Morra stands at the top of a hill, above the Barolo vineyards, and from Piazza Castello you can see almost all of them: this is why it is called the balcony of the Langhe. The village was born around the year 1000, when Alba began to clear the hills around it, and the name comes from Murra, the sheepfold. From 1340 it belonged to the Falletti, and in 1402 it gave itself statutes that are the first document in which, in these parts, Nebbiolo appears, the grape that Barolo comes from. The castle was pulled down in 1544, and with its stones, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the bell tower that stands on the square today was built. The rest is wine: seventy producers, a Cantina Comunale open since 1973 so that all of them can be tasted, and around the village seven marked trails that go down among the rows of vines, as far as the chapel that two artists painted in every colour in the middle of the Brunate vineyard. The centre is small and is walked in a couple of hours; for the vineyards you need a day.
Sleeping
Stops and overnight stays
You sleep at the Laghetto motorhome area, below the village, at a farm campsite among the vineyards of the Annunziata, or with a small vehicle at the car park in piazza Vittorio Emanuele II.
Area camper Il Laghetto
Strada Laghetto, 12064 La Morra (CN)
the area next to the little lake, an artificial reservoir from the early twentieth century. We stayed there in October 2026: there is electricity, water and a disposal point, and between eight and twelve pitches. It is poorly kept, which is a shame. The motorhomers' community sites give it as open from March to November: out of season, phone first. Trail no. 1 passes by the lake, climbing up to Piazza Castello along the ramparts
three pitches in the courtyard of a farm, with the garden, the portico and the view of the village. From the hamlet of Annunziata the trails set out towards the Cedar of Lebanon and the Cappella del Barolo
three large pitches, for motorhomes and tents
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11.50 euros per pitch, 15 euros for a single night, 9.50 euros per adult, 6 euros from 6 to 14, free under six; electricity 3.50 euros a night and tourist tax 0.50 euros per adult. Two people, for one night with electricity, come to 38.50 euros · 333 1774175 · larosanelborgo.it
two car parks side by side in the centre, on the left as you arrive from Barolo, near the public weighbridge. It is reported by the motorhomers' community sites, and the coordinates are from OpenStreetMap. In the motorhomers' comments it is quiet at night and lit, on tarmac and with no services. On the bays they do not agree: for one they are car sized and fine for a van, for another some of them take a medium motorhome too. No official source says you may stay overnight
The village is walked on foot; for the vineyards you walk the trails or take the motorhome again.
The centre is small, everything a few steps from Piazza Castello, which is pedestrian: the motorhome stays at the Laghetto area or at the car park in piazza Vittorio Emanuele II
The seven trails of the town and of the tourist association all start from the centre and are marked. They are fine with a pedal mountain bike too, not with an e-bike, and some stretches are steep
The Cappella del Barolo is a kilometre and a half from the village as the crow flies, the hamlet of Annunziata almost two: on foot you get there on trail no. 7, the Barolo trail
The bus on line 066 links La Morra with Bra and Alba, passing through Vergne
The tourist office is at Piazza Martiri 1, telephone 0173 209664 or 333 2060148: it is open Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-18:00, closed Tuesday and Wednesday. On booking it organises a free guided tour of the old centre with its volunteers
Seeing
Sights
You begin at the belvedere of Piazza Castello, walk round the centre and go down from the ramparts towards the vineyards, where the Cappella del Barolo, the Annunziata and the Cedar stand. Tap a marker on the map to open its entry below.
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The belvedere of Piazza Castello
Viewpoint · free entry · 44.63747, 7.93491
Piazza Castello, 12064 La Morra (CN)
the square stands where the castle was, and on one side it lies wide open over the hills: below are the great Barolo crus, and the eye reaches as far as the hills of the Roero. A round metal table gives the names of the villages you can see, each in its own direction. On the square is the marble bust of Giuseppe Gabetti, sculpted by Giuseppe Realini: Gabetti wrote the Marcia Reale in 1831, which was Italy's anthem until 1946, and he died in La Morra in 1862. Until 2018 there was also the Monumento al Vignaiolo by Antonio Munciguerra, in bronze, of 1972: it had been removed while the square was redone and it was stolen from the storehouse, in December of that year, a few days before going back to its place. In summer the square becomes a stage, with open air cinema and concerts.
the civic tower, in brick, was built between 1709 and 1711 with what was left of the castle, pulled down in 1544. At the top is the bell chamber, baroque, with its little dome, and below it the clock. It belongs to the town: no official source publishes the opening times and days, and anyone who wants to climb it asks at the tourist office.
the street that runs north from the square with the tower, with painted houses, shops and wine bars. At the start is Casa Gabetti, the yellow house with the friezes under the roof, which bears the name of the musician; halfway along the church of the Confraternita di San Sebastiano, of 1700, with its pale façade and the terracotta bell tower, younger, of 1766. No official source publishes the visiting hours.
it was opened in 1973 by the winegrowers of La Morra, in the eighteenth century rooms of the palace of the Marchesi di Barolo, and it is the place where you taste and buy the wines of the village's producers, Barolo first of all, and can have them shipped abroad too. In autumn it organises tasting days, one Saturday with Barbera and one with Nebbiolo, on booking. It does not publish the price of the tastings, and on the opening hours the sources do not agree: the Cantina says open every day, the Langhe tourist board closed on Tuesday.
Opening hours every day 10:00-12:30 and 14:30-18:30 · 0173 509204 · cantinalamorra.com · info@cantinalamorra.com
the parish church, which the community built at its own expense between 1684 and 1695 to a design by Michelangelo Garove: it stands high above the village, on a small square, with its baroque brick façade with columns. Inside, on the high altar, the altarpiece with the Madonna, the Child and Saints Martin and Crispin is by Giovanni Carlo Aliberti, of 1715. On 11 January 1874 a fire destroyed the apse and the organ, and the vault of the nave was painted by Luigi Morgari in 1879 and 1880. No official source publishes the opening times.
the small square of San Martino is closed by the church of the Confraternita di San Rocco, finished in 1749, with the dome frescoed by Pietro Paolo Operti, and by the Town Hall, with its façade of 1765, in piazza del Municipio. In the middle stands a large horse chestnut. San Rocco is looked at from outside: nobody publishes its opening times and days.
on the south side of the village the medieval walls remain, and a cobbled climb runs along the ramparts, from via Marconi up to Piazza Castello, with the hills open on one side. It is the last stretch of trail no. 1, the Laghetto trail, and the first of no. 6. Not far away, in via Ospedale, is casa Boffa, from the fifteenth century, and in via XX Settembre the palazzo Falletti-Cordero.
seven marked trails, about fifty kilometres in all, among vineyards, hazel groves, woods and hamlets, with country chapels, wayside shrines and fountains. They all start from the tourist office, which gives out the map. The shortest is no. 1, the Laghetto trail, two and a half kilometres in fifty minutes; no. 6, the great vineyards trail, is eight kilometres in two and a quarter hours and passes through the Annunziata and Santa Maria; no. 7, the Barolo trail, eleven and a half kilometres in three and a quarter hours, goes down among the crus to the Cedar of Lebanon, the Annunziata, the Cappella del Barolo and Cerequio, where a plaque remembers the partisans who were shot, and comes back up by the ramparts to the Cantina Comunale. The vineyards are private: you walk on the roads and on the headland tracks between the rows.
a chapel built in 1914 by the farmers of the surrounding vineyards, to shelter from storms, and dedicated to the Madonna delle Grazie, but never consecrated. In 1970 the Ceretto family bought six hectares of the Brunate vineyard, and the chapel with them, which at the time was used as a tool shed: there was a tractor inside. In 1999 two artists redid it, Sol LeWitt outside, with bands and waves of the brightest colours, and David Tremlett inside, with warm, calm tones. Today everyone calls it the Cappella del Barolo, or delle Brunate, and its façade faces the cru. The Ceretto write that it is closed for works and can be visited again in autumn 2026: before going, check their website. Nobody publishes the opening times or the price.
in the hamlet of Annunziata stood the Benedictine monastery of San Martino di Marcenasco. The church of the Annunziata has a Romanesque bell tower, a façade by Garove of 1684 with a portico and a frescoed interior, and a Roman inscription set into the floor. The monastery has belonged to the town since 1867, and in its cellars Renato Ratti opened in 1970 the first museum devoted to the wines of the Langhe. After a restoration costing more than two million euros it reopened on 25 October 2025: on the ground floor the life of Ratti, the father of the Barolo crus, as his winery calls him, and below, in the old cellars, the tools of the former museum and an animated map of the crus. Groups of ten people at most, booking on the winery's website.
Opening hours the museum from April to November, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 10:00-17:00, last entry at 16:00; Monday to Friday and in August by booking only · free, with the accompanied visit · 0173 50185 · ratti.com · visit@ratti.com
a single cedar, a big one, at the top of a round hill covered entirely in vineyards, above the hamlet of Annunziata. It was planted in 1856 by Costanzo Falletti di Rodello and Eulalia Della Chiesa di Cervignasco, on their wedding day, and it is one of the most photographed places in the area. Trail no. 7, the Barolo trail, passes beside it; the vineyards around are private, and you look at it from the road.
four days in Piazza Castello with cinema, shows, concerts and yoga at dawn. In 2026 from 2 to 5 July
Festa di Santa Maria
from 1 to 5 August
the festival of the hamlet of Santa Maria for the Madonna della Neve: on 5 August mass in the morning and at 21 the night procession among the lamps, with the Gabetti band
Mangialonga
late August
the non competitive walk among the vineyards, four kilometres with stops where you eat Langhe cooking and drink the wines of the wineries. In 2026 it was Sunday 30 August, and you book well ahead
Degusta La Morra
early September
the village's producers set out their barrels along via San Martino and pour their wines to taste, with the glass included in the ticket. In 2026 on 6 September, from 15:30 to 19:30
Sui sentieri di La Morra
in summer and autumn
the guided walks organised by the tourist office, each time on a theme. The last of 2026 is Saturday 3 October, on the trail of the truffle from the Bricco delle Viole: 10 euros, free up to twelve, on booking
Remember
Useful tips
The Cappella del Barolo is closed for works and the Ceretto say it can be visited again in autumn 2026, with no date: before going, look at their website, or call 0173 268033, the number for visits. From outside it can always be seen
The Museo Renato Ratti, from April to November, is open at weekends and on public holidays; on weekdays, and in August at weekends too, you book on 0173 50185
The tourist office is closed on Tuesday and Wednesday, and that is where you get the trail map: anyone arriving on those days downloads it from the website visitlamorra.it
To drink there is Barolo, with Nebbiolo, Barbera and Dolcetto; among the whites Nascetta and Favorita. In the valleys and on the less exposed slopes the hazelnut is grown, the Nocciola Piemonte IGP
For the Mangialonga at the end of August you book well ahead: the entries come from all over the world
Barolo and Grinzane Cavour, with its castle, are the hills next door, and they have their own page
La Morra · part two
and then?
What to taste, and where to go tomorrow.
Taste
The plin is the pinch that closes the pasta: it is the small agnolotto born in the high Langa around Alba, and by now belonging to all of Piedmont.
Distances and times by road, measured with OSRM on OpenStreetMap data.
Looking
La Morra in photographs
24 shots from our visit. Tap one to see it large.
La Morra at the top of the hill, with the houses gathered around the churches and the rows of vines climbing up to the villagePhoto: Ysogo, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the houses of La Morra stepped above the vineyards, with the churches and the bell tower at the topPhoto: Zairon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0a gravel road among the vineyards, below the village at the top of the hillPhoto: Helge Høifødt, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0from the belvedere of Piazza Castello, the hills of the Langhe covered in vineyards as far as the horizonPhoto: Einaz80, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the valley below the belvedere, with the road winding down in hairpin bends among the vineyardsPhoto: Helge Høifødt, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the rows of vines running down from the hill of La Morra towards the Barolo valleyPhoto: Helge Høifødt, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the table on the belvedere with the names of the villages you can see, each in its own directionPhoto: Denny Biasiolli, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the marble bust of Giuseppe Gabetti, the composer of the Marcia Reale, on the belvederePhoto: Rufus46, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the brick bell tower, with the clock and the bell chamber at the topPhoto: Einaz80, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the baroque bell chamber, with its little dome, above the clock of the towerPhoto: Rufus46, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Casa Gabetti, the yellow house with the painted friezes under the roofPhoto: Superchilum, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0the pale façade of San Sebastiano, with the terracotta bell tower beside itPhoto: Superchilum, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the entrance of the Cantina Comunale, with the wine press and the barrel in front of the doorPhoto: Helge Høifødt, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the baroque brick façade of San Martino, on its small squarePhoto: Superchilum, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the nave of San Martino, with the painted vault and the high altar at the endPhoto: Rufus46, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the high altar of San Martino, with the altarpiece by Giovanni Carlo Aliberti between the columnsPhoto: Rufus46, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the church of San Rocco on the small square, with the bell tower and the big tree in frontPhoto: Helge Høifødt, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the cobbled climb along the ramparts, with the roofs of the village and the hills in the backgroundPhoto: Helge Høifødt, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the Cappella del Barolo in the middle of the vineyard, with the hills of the Langhe behindPhoto: Ziegler175, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the façade of the Cappella del Barolo, painted by Sol LeWitt in panels of bright coloursPhoto: Zairon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the side of the Cappella del Barolo, with the waves of colour, the yellow cross and the striped apsePhoto: Zairon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0inside the chapel, the apse painted by David Tremlett in blue and dark redPhoto: Ziegler175, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the church of the Annunziata with its portico and Romanesque bell towerPhoto: Rufus46, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Cedar of Lebanon, alone at the top of the hillPhoto: Davide Tomatis, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
