The vineyard landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato cover five distinct wine-growing areas - Langa del Barolo, the hills of Barbaresco, Nizza Monferrato and Barbera, Canelli and Asti Spumante, Monferrato degli Infernot - and the Castle of Cavour, which Unesco describes as “an emblematic name both in the development of vineyards and in Italian history.”(Camillo Benso Count of Cavour was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification.)

This Unesco site, inscribed only recently in the World Heritage list (2014), is located in the southern part of Piedmont, between the Po River and the Ligurian Apennines, “and encompasses the whole range of technical and economic processes relating to the winegrowing and winemaking that has characterized the region for centuries.”