
Sessame

Sessame is a name that reminds of number six: six were the Roman miles that separated it from Acqui, six are the rivers and streams in its territory and sixty are the miles to go to Turin.
Sessame, a strange town built on an easily-sloughing ground, with its two churches one beside the other on the main square and the many houses ruined by the sloughs, is the true hometown of Brachetto.
Brachetto is a sweet wine, and the main job of the few remeining farming families.
Vineyards cover a large part of the territory and give it its unique charm.
Near the bormida river there’s a special place, especially designed to be a home for the grey heron.
It’s a kind of birfd that had been absent for a long time from these places, and that is returning now thanks to the pollution decrease.
History
Sessame is a very ancient town, probably first built before the Roman era by some Liguri tribe.
It didn’t enjoy any relevant development, though, until the Middle Ages, when it was owned by many different lords and families.
Among them the Del Carretto family, the Sforza and, since the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Savoia.
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01 Mar 26 OctE-Bike tour tra le colline del Monferrato
Un tour con degustazione per godere dei panorami mozzafiato del Monferrato e dei suoi vini
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10 Jul 12 JulAsti Sotterranea
Un suggestivo itinerario “sottosopra” alla scoperta delle bellezze più nascoste della città
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11 Jul 13 JulVisita in gipsoteca con pranzo
Visita alla gipsoteca Monteverde e pranzo sulle colline con un'offerta pensata per ogni esigenza
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12 JulUna sera d’estate sul sentiero dei Plandrun con dinner brunch e lancio del merluzzo
Un sabato sera alternativo: una camminata suggestiva alla luce del tramonto e sotto le stelle sulle colline panoramiche del territorio di Albaretto con un finale saporito
Eat & Sleep in Sessame and around

The parish church of saint Anthony the Abbot
Via del Castello, 25, 14051 Loazzolo AT, Italia
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The Sant'Eusebio Chapel Chapel
Cappella di Sant'Eusebio, SP126, Rocca Cigliè, CN, Italia
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Partisan Airport Museum Excelsior
Comune di Vesime, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, Vesime, AT, Italia
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Biking between Langa astigiana and Val Bormida #2 Roccaverano-Mombaldone
Mombaldone, AT, Italia
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