Piazza Galimberti

Driving up into Cuneo from the surrounding flat orchards and fields, visitors are met by the town’s unexpectedly large 24,000-sq-metre main square, the Piazza Galimberti.  Striking not just for its size but also for its magnificent proportions and the quality of the surrounding architecture, this is an introduction that will be hard to beat on entering any other Italian city.  To the south of the square is the equally impressive Corso Nizza, which is also lined with the most exquisitely proportioned and grand buildings, lending the town the air of a much larger city.

In truth, the striking beauty of the town itself, only serves as an appetiser to the scale and splendour of the surrounding mountains, and your hire car will have you high above the town in minutes, winding your way along the mountain roads and making the most of the many vantage points from which this delightful town and province can be fully appreciated.