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Extract from the Alba Travel Guides:
Whether or not you want to taste wine,
ALBA
repays a visit, for its central core of red-brick medieval towers, Baroque and Renaissance palaces and cobbled streets lined with gastronomic shops is one of Piemonte's most alluring. And if you come in October, there's a chance to see the town's hilarious annual donkey race - a skit on nearby Asti's prestigious Palio.
Of things to see, the late-Gothic
Duomo
on the central Piazza Risorgimento has been gaudily restored and holds some fine Renaissance stalls, inlaid with cityscapes, musical instruments, and fake cupboards whose contents seem to be on the v...
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