Day 1

Arrival in Alessandria. Visit the Borsalino Museum to discover the most famous hat in the world, loved by the master. Stop for specialty coffee experience with De.C.O.
pastryDinner on your own and overnight stay in the central hotel

Day 2

Guided walking tour with stops in the most significant places of Umberto Eco’s life in the city:

Piazza Matteotti – the Liceo Classico ex Plana now dedicated to Umberto Eco
Piazza della Libertà – the Mosaics of Severini
Piazza Duomo – Gagliaudo Aulari, the peasant hero
Piazza Vittorio Veneto, the library and the monument to Eco by Marco Lodola
Piazza Valfrè – the war and the displacement
Via Verdi – the Supercinema
Piazzetta della Lega – the meeting point of the Alessandrians
Via San Francesco d’Assisi – the San Francesco and Gelindo Association with “La Divota Cumedia” dialect show (during the Christmas period from Christmas to mid-January, possibility to attend the afternoon / evening performance)

In the afternoon visit to the Art Rooms with the splendid cycle of frescoes inspired by the stories of Arthur

Including tasting lunch with farinata (“bellecalda” in Alessandrian / on opening days tasting in the historic restaurant in Via Bergamo frequented by Eco)
Free dinner and overnight stay

Day 3

Transfer to Nizza Monferrato, the city where Eco was evacuated with his family during the war and where he attended Don Bosco Oratory. In 2010 he received honorary citizenship from Nizza Monferrato and the Civic Library is dedicated to him (Book Foucault’s Pendulum – character Jacopo Belbo)
Free walking tour in the town and light lunch in the Enoteca del Nizza
Transfer to Turin, free dinner and overnight stay in the central hotel

Day 4

Morning guided walking tour through the city center. Tasting of bicerin, a hot and non-alcoholic drink made with coffee, chocolate and milk cream typical of Turin (in the café frequented by Eco and mentioned in the book “The Prague Cemetery”). Free lunch. In the afternoon, a visit to the Museum of Radio and Television, a stone’s throw from the Mole Antonelliana, represents a fascinating journey through the history of Italian television and radio (Eco began working at Rai in Turin after graduating). Alternatively and depending on the opening days, visit the Officina della Scrittura, the first museum in the world that celebrates the Sign in all its forms. A fascinating journey through the birth and evolution of writing, an extraordinary tool of expression and communication. And a visit to the Aurora factory, the first Italian industry for the production of tank pens founded in 1919.
Dinner in a restaurant in the center and overnight stay.

Day 5

Transfer to Chiusa di San Michele, near Avigliana. The Sacra di San Michele, the symbolic place of Piedmont, inspired the literary construction of the abbey which, at the end of 1327, hosted the young monk Adso da Melk, and his teacher William of Baskerville in the international best-selling novel The Name of the Rose. The historical crime novel combines semiotics with fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory and has been translated into 47 languages, with thirty million copies sold.

The abbey defies the principles of physics and dominates the top of Mount Pirchiriano, at the entrance to the Susa Valley: A wonderful place full of spirituality, originally guarded by Benedictine monks and which since 1837 has been entrusted to the Rosminian fathers.

Guided tour of the Abbey, with the imposing Staircase of the Dead, the Portal of the Zodiac, the Church, the panoramic terrace and the Ruins of the Monastery New
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