Barbaresco Things to Do

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Though Barbaresco has only 657 inhabitants it has a church (closed) and a chapel (open). The chapel shows on the first photo, half hidden behind an old tree.

At first sight (second photo), the inside seems to be very sober, without any decor.

Though, the third photo reveals an amazing setting of the choir.

The fourth photo shows that the altar (?) is framed with chairs and that at the bottom of the choir stand a great many unidintified fusiform cylinders.

The fifth photo reveals that the chapel (temple ?) is actually dedicated to Bacchus, the shed holds bottles of wine, the table (definitely not an altar !) is obviously dedicated to their tasting. I wrote ‘the inside seems very sober’… Hmm !

This photo was taken inside a vineyard and shows that they are planted as continuous rows and not as single plants. They are lead around a height of 2 m which is not very common but also found in Val d’Aoste (Italy) and Alsace (France).

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The first photo was taken from the terrace of Ca’ da Rabaja on the first morning of our stay. It shows the vines that underline the contour-lines of the hills. If you enlarge the photo, you will see in the foreground a rose : they are often planted at the beginning of each row as it is supposed to “catch” the fungal diseases and protect the vines.

The second photo was taken from the same place another morning, when the mist had hidden most of the landscape.

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The first photo shows the wineyards that spread on every hill with in the background, the village of Barbaresco on its brow. The second photo was taken with tele lens from the same palce and shows better the wine yards underneath Barbaresco.

This is the view on the wineyards taken in the morning from the terrace in front of Ca’ du Rabajà, the Agroturism where we spent four nights. Around Barbaresco, the wineyards cover entirely the slopes of the hills.

On this photo, Barbaresco is seen with tele lens from a distant hill. The village with the old tower stands in the middle (the belfrey does not show much). On the far right, the winery that was on the second photo of “view from the tower”. In the foreground, a hamlet belonging to Barbaresco, that should be Rabaja.

This photo, taken with tele lens shows another village in the distance. Sorry, I cannot give its name, I am now unable to identify it as there are so many around ! Almost every hill is topped either by a few houses or by a village.

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From the bottom of the tower, one wiew is towards the village street and the “Cantina Produtorre” (wine producers’ cave) appearing on the first photo. It was created at the end of the 19th century.

The second photo is a close-up of the back ground with a view on the wine yards and a winery on top of another hill.