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Count Roero's 1726 Baroque palace above Alba, a house-museum turned 12-room hotel — frescoed halls, listed Italian gardens, a cave-carved spa and the whole Langhe on the horizon.
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Award Winner 2017
World's Best Relaxation Retreat Hotel
Need To Know
- 12 rooms: eight on the third floor named for figures from the palace's history, four at ground level; marble bathrooms throughout
- The wellness centre is reserved for guests over 14
- Pets welcome
- Our Favourite Rooms: a third-floor historical room for the frescoes and the long Langhe view
- La Limonaia serves lunch and dinner daily, to guests and the public — seasonal set menus, white truffle in season
- Spa in the caves beneath the castle: saunas, hammam, Turkish bath, whirlpool, Kneipp path, sensory showers, panoramic terrace; outdoor pool in the gardens
- Weddings and events use the Salone d'Onore, the frescoed halls and the Italian gardens; free parking
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- Sleeping in a house-museum — eight third-floor rooms named for figures from the palace's history, four more at garden level, silk wall coverings rewoven on special looms, marble baths.
- The spa in the castle rock — sauna, Turkish bath, Kneipp path and a whirlpool cut into the caves beneath the walls, with a panoramic terrace reading Alba, Barolo and Barbaresco in one sweep.
- La Limonaia — Fassona, agnolotti del plin and Alba's white truffle in season, set seasonal menus served beneath 18th-century frescoes, open to the public daily so book ahead.
- The listed Italian gardens — an exedra of hornbeam hedges and eighteen great yews clipped into overlapping discs, begun in 1740 and still holding the south view.
- The white truffle hunt — out with the hunters around 3am in October and November, back for the truffle menu at dinner. Named World's Best Relaxation Retreat Hotel by the Boutique Hotel Club.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Castello di Guarene
€415.90 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Via Alessandro Roero, 2 – 12050 Guarene (CN) Italy
Travel Info
About an hour's drive from Turin and its airport, two hours from Milan; Alba sits ten minutes below the hill. Free parking at the castle. The Roero and Langhe wine villages spread in every direction — a car is the way to take them.
Nearby Places
Levaldigi Airport
40km
Valentino Park
44km
Last Updated: 2026-06-05
Expert Review
Origins
A castle has commanded the Guarene hill for seven centuries. The medieval fortress gave way in 1726 to one of Piedmont's great Baroque ambitions: Count Carlo Giacinto Roero di Guarene — aristocrat, landowner and gifted amateur architect — laid the first stone at half past eight on the evening of 13 September and spent the rest of his life building. Filippo Juvarra, architect to the Savoy court, designed the facade; the count directed everything else, in winter by daily letter from Turin to his master mason, so that the palace can fairly claim to have been built by correspondence. His sons Traiano and Teodoro finished what he began, and in 1773 King Vittorio Amedeo III of Sardinia and his queen came to visit — the palace keeps the mementoes still.
What followed is the rarer part: nothing was lost. The Roero line held the castle for generations, the Provana di Collegno inherited it in 1899, and the family lived in it until 2011 — paintings, furniture, silk walls and library intact, a private house quietly outlasting every century that ruined its peers. When new owners took it on, the restoration rewove the silk and velvet wall coverings on special looms and kept the original room plans, and in 2015 the palace opened as a hotel that is equally a house-museum.
The setting earned its own recognition: the vineyard landscape the terraces overlook — the Langhe chain, Monferrato to Verduno, with Alba directly below and the Roero and Alps behind — is UNESCO-listed, and the Italian gardens, begun in 1740 with the gardener of Castello di Govone, are catalogued botanical heritage in their own right: hornbeam exedra, box parterres and eighteen vast yews clipped into overlapping discs. In 2017 the Boutique Hotel Club named it World's Best Relaxation Retreat Hotel.
Top Secret
On the first floor, an iron gate closes off the family library — untouched since the last private residents left in 2011, and holding Count Carlo Giacinto's own collection, down to hand-written diaries from the Middle Ages. Ask a member of staff: they will open it, and the castle's seven centuries become suddenly specific.
The Review
The castle announces itself from miles off — a 25-metre Baroque block riding the Roero hilltop above Guarene's rooftops — and the approach through the old wooden gate does the rest. Inside, nothing feels staged because nothing is: the paintings, chandeliers and frescoed vaults are the house's own, kept in place through three centuries of single-family ownership, and the twelve rooms sleep you inside the collection rather than beside it. Take a third-floor room named for one of the palace's historical figures and the morning view runs the length of the Langhe.
The spa goes the other direction — down, into caves cut beneath the castle walls. Saunas, hammam, Turkish bath, sensory showers and a Kneipp path thread the rock, a whirlpool faces the hills, and the panoramic terrace above puts Alba, Asti, Barolo and Barbaresco into a single slow scan. The outdoor pool waits in the gardens among the clipped yews, and the silence the hotel promises is real: Guarene is a village, not a resort town, and the evenings belong to the crickets.
La Limonaia closes the argument. Seasonal set menus work the Piedmont canon — Fassona, agnolotti del plin presented like jewellery, hay-scented panna cotta — beneath the frescoes, with a sommelier walking the cellar's Roero and Langhe depth, and in October and November the white truffle takes over: rise at three for the hunt with the trifolau and his dog, then meet your quarry again at dinner. It is the rare castle stay where the building, the landscape and the table hold the same standard — and where the king's visit of 1773 feels less like history than precedent.
