A weekend in the Langhe

arrival in the evening at the Laghetto area, below the village, which you can enter at any hour. It has electricity, fresh water and a waste dump. It is poorly kept, but it does for one night. The motorhome community sites give it as open until November, and a phone call to 327 5441063 settles the doubt. La Morra is seen on Friday morning: the Sentiero n. 1 trail passes the area and climbs along the ramparts to Piazza Castello, four hundred metres away. The belvedere over the Barolo crus with its table naming the villages, the tower built with the stones of the castle, via Umberto I, and the Cantina Comunale, which opens at 10am. The tourist office in Piazza Martiri is open on Fridays and hands out the trail map.

after lunch you drive down towards Barolo, passing below the Cappella del Barolo, in the Brunate vineyard. The Ceretto family gave it as closed for works until autumn 2026, with no date: check their website first, and from outside you can see it anyway. In Barolo the motorhome stays in the car park on via Alba, down in the valley, and you walk up along the pedestrian road, one kilometre with a steep climb at the end. The WiMu, the wine museum in the castle, closes at 7pm with last entry at 6:00pm: 9 euros, with the noble floor of the Marchesa Giulia and Silvio Pellico's room. The visit ends in the cellars of the Enoteca Regionale, open on Fridays until 6pm, where you taste on your own with a card. With the WiMu ticket the Corkscrew Museum, opposite, costs 2 euros. For the night, three kilometres by road to Camping Sole Langhe, in the hamlet of Vergne, on the other side of the valley: the pitches stand among hazelnut trees and vines, and 150 metres away there are a bakery and a restaurant. Two people spend between 36 and 44 euros, with electricity and waste dump. The pitch must be left by noon.

a quarter of an hour by road to Grinzane Cavour, for the castle's opening at 10am. The museum with Cavour's bedroom and the Hall of the Masks takes three quarters of an hour, then the In Vigna museum below the walls and the Vigna Gustava belvedere, eight hundred metres. Lunch at the castle bistro or at the trattoria and the wine bar on via XV Novembre, at the foot of the hill. In the afternoon six kilometres to Alba Village, which closes at the end of October: 25 pitches on a Fair weekend, book on 0173 280972. Two people pay 39 euros. From the campsite to the centre is half an hour on foot: you go in the afternoon, for Piazza Risorgimento, the cathedral with its inlaid choir of 1512 and the World White Truffle Market in the courtyard of the Maddalena, open until 7:30pm, 6 euros and free up to fifteen years of age. The online ticket includes the Mudet, the truffle museum. In the evening there is the Baccanale dei Borghi, from 6pm to midnight, with the districts' kitchens and old games, free entry. Coming back, it is the same thirty minutes on foot.

Alba Village must be left by 11am, so the motorhome is moved in the morning and left in the car park of the Ferrero factory, where parking is tolerated at weekends, a quarter of an hour on foot from the centre. The bell tower of San Giuseppe opens at 10am on Sundays: about two hundred steps, 4 euros, and at the top the towers side by side above the red roofs. Then the via Maestra down to the Maddalena, and in piazza San Giovanni the Slow Food Earth Market. The Baccanale goes on from 10am to 7pm. Anyone who wants to go down beneath the Roman town books Alba Sotterranea on ambientecultura.it, which in October runs every weekend: 12 euros if booked by Wednesday 14, and it gives you the bell tower for one euro. Lunch with tajarin, and you set off in the early afternoon. The A33 motorway has no toll booths: without an electronic toll device you pay online within fifteen days, or at the kiosk in Alba. No overnight stop: we sleep at home.