Deserves to succeed
Review Submitted: August 5, 2009
Date of Stay: July 2009
Casa Matilda (or, Ronnchi) was still a building site when we visited. Dogliani is easily reached via motorway (Turin, Chevasco). From Dogliani follow signs to Savona and Belvedere. At about the 10th roadside shrine there's a steep dirt track on the left. The farmhouse, being converted into 3/4 apartments, is at the end of the track. Our apartment was finished in style, spacious and clean, with fabulous views stretching, on a clear day, to the Alps. The region (rarely visited by British tourists, it seems) is an extraordinary landscape of vines, nut trees, landslides and towns perched on the summits. Even the nuts are getting their certificate of origin soon. The local wines are excellent, made from grapes (apart from Barolo) I'd never heard of. There are interesting sights, walks, swimming pools, architecture etc. within easy reach by car. Competition for tourists is fierce, it seems, because "agritourismo" signs are as common as wayside shrines and foreign number plates rare. Disappointingly for our children, the building site part was so efficiently barriered-off they couldn't play in the muck; agreeably, the hillside location catches the breeze and we didn't get a mosquito bite all week. The renovation is being done with much environmental attention, with wood pellet heating, sustainable organic vineyard, etc. and I do hope the charming and idealistic couple whose project this is succeed.
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