What it's like to sit on a bench made for a 32 feet tall person? Why does cardoons have a hunchback? Where is one of the masterpieces of Bermejo, envied even by the Prado Museum? Which food is so precious to deserve an auction? Langhe, Roero and Monferrato, treasures of Piemonte region and of Humanity, have been included by Unesco on the World Heritage List for their wine landscape. Territories profoundly different from each other, which combine old farmer tradition to continuous research and innovation. Not only top quality production of wine and food, small villages and historical castles on top of the hills, caressed by fog and fertility, but also painters, writers and sport champions who became legends. An uncommon tour through 111 and more places, stories and secrets of one of most extraordinary and unknown area of Italy.

Maurizio Francesconi (Turin, 1974) is a fashion historian, journalist and professor of history of fashion design and semiotics of fashion at IED in Turin. They live in Turin and for Emons they are authors of 111 Places in Turin You Shouldn't Miss.