Alba Sotterranea

Venue: Piazza Risorgimento. Address: Piazza Risorgimento, Alba, CN, Italy. Organizer: Ambiente & Cultura. End: 17:00 Alba sotterranea is a guided tour by a professional archaeologist that includes a visit to three underground stops among the 32 of the city archaeological route plus a final stop at the F. Eusebio museum. The itineraries vary from date to date. The visit lasts about 1h and 45 minutes. The moves from one underground stop to the next are on the surface and are an opportunity to enjoy significant glimpses of the historic center. The meeting point is in Piazza Risorgimento (called “del Duomo”), in front of the town hall or the tourist office (house number 1 or 2). A bit of history From the times of Alba Pompeia (as the city was called in the centuries of the Roman era), what is today the historic center has seen generations of cities succeed one another, in the same place. The medieval city grew on the remains of the Roman one, the modern one took its place without erasing it completely, and so on, up to the current city, which without knowing it is shaped in its form by the urban features of Alba Pompeia. Of the last two thousand years