Just over an hour’s drive from La Cascina Langa you can get to know two beautiful Italian cities.
Turin, about 80 minutes by car
The ancient capital, with its regal architecture, majestic squares and avenues, is experiencing a well-deserved boom of tourists who discover or rediscover the ‘Paris’ of Italy.
In addition to noble palaces, baroque churches, architecture from the eighteenth century to liberty, Turin offers some of the most interesting museums in Italy (cinema museum, newly restored Egyptian museum, automobile museum ..) and is a must, also for a tourism of passage, the experience of its elegant nineteenth-century café-lounges: in frescoed rooms or covered with antique satins and tapestries, with authentic furnishings and porcelain, you can taste sweets, ice creams and chocolate-based delights among the best in the world …
Genoa, about 80 minutes by car
Genoa is a city of multiple faces, an incredible mix of styles and forms, with a town planning that ranges from the maze of alleyways of the old center to the great esplanades facing the sea … Genoa surprises and, in the apparent confusion of a city that is grown upset between sea and mountains, it reveals all its treasures one after the other: it goes from the Romanesque churches to the creations of the most famous contemporary “archi-stars”, from the seventeenth-century palaces to the bustle of the port … …
The major attraction today is the Aquarium, the first in Europe for the number of animal species present. The exterior building bears the signature of Renzo Piano who oversaw the renovation of the entire Old Port, including the Bigo and the Goccia which houses butterflies, iguanas, and tropical flora …