le Cento Torri Medioevali

Alba. Once known as the "City of 100 towers". If there were ever indeed 100 not many have survived to this day.

It is not clear from what I have read as to whether Alba actually had 100 towers or indeed if not, how many there actually were. Suffice it to say they must have had a good many though what remain I d...

Beautiful Centro Storico

This Centro Storico has several well kept buindings, an easy to stroll through pedestrian street, shops, restaurants and delightful gelaterias.

Prominent feature of the skyline

This is one of the key landmarks on Piazza Duomo, along with the Duomo and the Palazzo Comunale. More that 100 towers were built in the 14th and 15th centuries. Only about a dozen remain in Alba today...

Quite an unique feature

Alba reminds me a bit to San Gimigliano in Tuscany with all these ancient tall towers all over the city centre. There are only a few of the 100s of them there used to be but still a great add to a ver...

The city was at the hundred turns (but it was before)!

Original Text

Sign of the power of the Consuls (a noble aristocratic) that ruled the city during the period of the municipalities in the 14th and 15th century in military manner (which is the turns).