june 12, 2022

Corsa delle Botti and Monferrato on the table

Nizza Monferrato presents two increasingly complementary events, linked to the food and wine tradition and to a sporting event with strong competitive and spectacular connotations.
By purchasing the ” Corsa delle Botti ” experience you can watch the barrel race, have lunch in one of the Nicesi restaurants and visit the many local attractions.

Partenza corsa delle Botti

Barrel Race

With the Corsa delle Botti we wanted to recover a part of the history of the late nineteenth-early twentieth century that tells of a society that is profoundly different from the current one. At that time, the delivery of the barrels at home was entrusted to the young boys (ghersonèt) who, rolling them through the city streets, competed to get to their destination first. Every year that tradition is recalled: the “Corsa delle Botti” is run through the city districts. It is a spectacular competition of strength and skill that consists in pushing heavy barrels over a quintal through the narrow streets of the city.

Food and wine experience

An incredibly diverse territory, from which extraordinary typical products come from, including the white truffle of Alba and the precious “fassone”, just to give an example. These extraordinary lands are reflected, in addition to the wines, on the local gastronomic offer, equally rich and heterogeneous: from meats, also eaten raw, from hand-made pasta to the infinite cheeses, tome and robiole, from vegetables to slow-cooked braised meats, to arrive to sweets. Their flavor accompanied by fine wines will crown the taste of your experience.

Mangiare bene a Canelli

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza and its fine Barbera wine, of which it is the undisputed capital, were recognized as a UNESCO heritage site on 22 June 2014. From the famous variety of grape, cultivated for over 500 years in the Piedmont area, on 1 July 2016 the denomination Barbera d’Asti Superiore “Nizza” was born.
Nizza is also the land of the hunchback thistle and the white truffle.
Furthermore, it cannot be forgotten that Nice is the home of the prized Piedmontese breed meat.
Typical dishes are the green cake, the belacauda (chickpea porridge) and the bagna cauda.
The city, in the oldest part, is triangular in shape with districts all in a straight line and boasts a large presence of historic buildings of considerable value. You cannot miss a visit to the symbol of the town, the Campanone, a civic tower incorporated in the town hall, Palazzo Crova di Vaglio built in the 18th century which houses the multimedia museum Palazzo del Gusto, dedicated to the history of local food and wine, and Palazzo De Benedetti, also built in the eighteenth century.
Also interesting are the museum proposals with the Bersano Museum of Farmers and Ancient Wine Prints, set up by the Bersano winery, which houses a precious collection of agricultural tools and a collection of wine labels.

Palazzo Comunale Nizza Monferrato

Outward journey

09.00 Departure from Torino Porta Nuova
09.10 Departure from Torino Lingotto
11.33 Arrival in Nizza Monferrato

Return trip

17.30 Departure from Nizza Monferrato
18.35 Arrival in Turin Lingotto
18.45 Arrival in Turin Porta Nuova

Nizza è Barbera

Barrel Race

Restaurant

Arcane
  • Train ticket
  • Welcome Aperitif
  • Visit to the Peasant Museum and the Bersano Museum of Prints
  • Narration of the territory with landscape storymovers®
  • Visits to the Campanon, to Palazzo Crova, to the Trinity auditorium, to the Garden of the Righteous, to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Grace
  • Lunch at the restaurant
    Arcane

€ 135

Nizza è Barbera

Barrel Race

Restaurant

The Golden Cannon

  • Train ticket
  • Welcome Aperitif
  • Visit to the Peasant Museum and the Bersano Museum of Prints
  • Narration of the territory with landscape storymovers®
  • Visits to the Campanon, to Palazzo Crova, to the Trinity auditorium, to the Garden of the Righteous, to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Grace
  • Lunch at the restaurant
    The Golden Cannon

€ 135

Nizza è Barbera

Barrel Race

Restaurant

The Locanda del Campanon

  • Train ticket
  • Welcome Aperitif
  • Visit to the Peasant Museum and the Bersano Museum of Prints
  • Narration of the territory with landscape storymovers®
  • Visits to the Campanon, to Palazzo Crova, to the Trinity auditorium, to the Garden of the Righteous, to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Grace
  • Lunch at the restaurant
    The Locanda del Campanon

€ 135

Nizza è Barbera

Barrel Race

Restaurant

The Lady in Red

  • Train ticket
  • Welcome Aperitif
  • Visit to the Peasant Museum and the Bersano Museum of Prints
  • Narration of the territory with landscape storymovers®
  • Visits to the Campanon, to Palazzo Crova, to the Trinity auditorium, to the Garden of the Righteous, to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Grace
  • Lunch at the restaurant
    The Lady in Red

€ 135

Nizza è Barbera

Barrel Race

Restaurant

Third time

  • Train ticket
  • Welcome Aperitif
  • Visit to the Peasant Museum and the Bersano Museum of Prints
  • Narration of the territory with landscape storymovers®
  • Visits to the Campanon, to Palazzo Crova, to the Trinity auditorium, to the Garden of the Righteous, to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Grace
  • Lunch at the restaurant
    Third time

€ 135

Treno storico Piemonte

Barrel Race

Train ticket

  • Ticket from Turin to Nizza Monferrato and back

  • Full ticket with diesel locomotive 62 euros

  • Reduced (from 4 to 12 years) with diesel locomotive 40 euros





€ 62