With more than 900 hours of Winter Olympics coverage reaching the world in two months, the very best of the Piemonte region and the city of Torino will be showcased before millions.
Here's why...
December 16, 2005 (Press Release) --
Turin, Region of Piedmont, ITALY (December 16, 2005) – With just two months until the 20th Winter Olympics Games begin in Torino, the world’s attention soon will be on Italy’s Piedmont Region, where skiers, skaters, snowboarders and more than one million spectators from around the globe will gather for the quadrennial celebration of winter sport.
American travelers – for whom Torino and northwestern Italy is an unknown corner of Europe, often overlooked in favor of Paris, London and Rome – are in for a pleasant surprise.
Winter Sports
With magnificent ski resorts mixed in with traditional mountain villages, the Piedmont Alps will captivate the world as the setting for the 2006 Olympic Games. The region offers winter sports enthusiasts more than 1,200 miles of ski runs, spanning from the Maritime Alps to the Monviso and the Susa Valley to Monte Rosa.
Culinary Delights
To experience the Piedmont Region is to experience culinary delights that can be found nowhere else in the world. With meals made of impeccably fresh ingredients, the people of the Piedmont region live to eat and drink… as the saying goes, in Piedmont baby's comforters are dipped in wine!
Piedmont is home to the Slow Food Movement, a global organization founded in the small town of Bra. Heralded as the “cure” for a distressingly fast-food world, slow food promotes the sanctity of taste, taste education and food preservation with fairs, events and educational programs.
Piedmont also is home to tuber magnatum pico, commonly known as the white truffle, a fungus coveted by gourmands around the world. Piedmont now is in the height of white truffle season (late October through early December), and a pound of the tubers can go for more than $2,000.
The Piedmont Region also is one of the world’s best wine producers. Of Italy’s 20 regions, Piedmont leads the pack in number of wines awarded DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita) status.
Year-Round Beauty
Piedmont’s Lake District provides breathtaking vistas and rejuvenating waters. The great Lake Maggiore, the smaller Lake Orta, both just 90 minutes from Torino, shimmer like the most exquisite precious stones. Visitors will find the perfectly preserved villas, luxurious modern resorts and charming fishing villages have changed little over the centuries. Piedmont’s stunning parks and mountains, and the region’s untouched valleys, lakes and rivers, offer world-class hiking, mountain climbing, kayaking, rowing, cycling, paragliding, horseback riding and five of the top ten golf resorts in Italy. The Alpine valleys close to Torino – Lanzo, Susa, Chisone, Germanasca and Pellice – are ideal for both day hikes and lengthy treks.
Culture and History
The Piedmont Region is the intersection of many critical moments in Western civilization and offers several museums and attractions that serve as windows to the past.
Region Piedmont Web Site
The Region Piedmont in northwest Italy has launched a comprehensive new web site http://www.SeeYouInPiemonte.com which provides a wealth of timely information tailored for the American travel consumer, on what to see, what to do and where to go in the Piedmont Region.
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American travelers – for whom Torino and northwestern Italy is an unknown corner of Europe, often overlooked in favor of Paris, London and Rome – are in for a pleasant surprise.
Winter Sports
With magnificent ski resorts mixed in with traditional mountain villages, the Piedmont Alps will captivate the world as the setting for the 2006 Olympic Games. The region offers winter sports enthusiasts more than 1,200 miles of ski runs, spanning from the Maritime Alps to the Monviso and the Susa Valley to Monte Rosa.
Culinary Delights
To experience the Piedmont Region is to experience culinary delights that can be found nowhere else in the world. With meals made of impeccably fresh ingredients, the people of the Piedmont region live to eat and drink… as the saying goes, in Piedmont baby's comforters are dipped in wine!
Piedmont is home to the Slow Food Movement, a global organization founded in the small town of Bra. Heralded as the “cure” for a distressingly fast-food world, slow food promotes the sanctity of taste, taste education and food preservation with fairs, events and educational programs.
Piedmont also is home to tuber magnatum pico, commonly known as the white truffle, a fungus coveted by gourmands around the world. Piedmont now is in the height of white truffle season (late October through early December), and a pound of the tubers can go for more than $2,000.
The Piedmont Region also is one of the world’s best wine producers. Of Italy’s 20 regions, Piedmont leads the pack in number of wines awarded DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita) status.
Year-Round Beauty
Piedmont’s Lake District provides breathtaking vistas and rejuvenating waters. The great Lake Maggiore, the smaller Lake Orta, both just 90 minutes from Torino, shimmer like the most exquisite precious stones. Visitors will find the perfectly preserved villas, luxurious modern resorts and charming fishing villages have changed little over the centuries. Piedmont’s stunning parks and mountains, and the region’s untouched valleys, lakes and rivers, offer world-class hiking, mountain climbing, kayaking, rowing, cycling, paragliding, horseback riding and five of the top ten golf resorts in Italy. The Alpine valleys close to Torino – Lanzo, Susa, Chisone, Germanasca and Pellice – are ideal for both day hikes and lengthy treks.
Culture and History
The Piedmont Region is the intersection of many critical moments in Western civilization and offers several museums and attractions that serve as windows to the past.
Region Piedmont Web Site
The Region Piedmont in northwest Italy has launched a comprehensive new web site http://www.SeeYouInPiemonte.com which provides a wealth of timely information tailored for the American travel consumer, on what to see, what to do and where to go in the Piedmont Region.
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