At night, sometimes, Anguilla enjoys the fresh air from the hotel balcony. He stares at the hills, above the “handful of roofs” of the village,

Announced by majestic pines, in contrast with the few fruit trees of the Gaminella lodge, and by a profusion of flowers, the Mora farm lies

“The Knight was the son of the old Knight, who once was the owner of the lands of the Castle and of the various mills

The Gaminella hill, along with the Salto hill, is one of the two sides of the universe of The Moon And The Bonfires. Surrounded by

The Belbo stream, in whose once pure waters people used to fish and bathe, clearly divides the two hills of Gaminella and Salto, with the

The life journey of Pavese, and of many characters of his, started in Santo Stefano Belbo, a town at the valley floor, where the Langhe

Only the train with its old steam locomotives, now disused, breaks the rhythm of this world enclosed by the hills, where time is measured through

The church overlooks another square of the town, just as big as a cathedral. On its staircase, in the troubled times after the second World

On 7 September 2002 the remains of Cesare Pavese were transferred to the cemetery of Santo Stefano Belbo, with the consent of his family (the

What Pavese calls Salto is the hill opposite Gaminella, skirting the road to Canelli. It is rather different from Gaminella: more rugged, arid, less lush.

The little station of Santo Stefano Belbo, from where Pavese’s characters come and go, is still the same with its railways, no longer in use.

Palazzina del Nido ”…red in the middle of its plane trees, outlined on the flank of the extreme hill” [the Salto hill], dominates the entire

Pavese’s birthplace, where his parents used to spend their summer holidays, is rather out-of-town, on the road to Canelli. The house architecture, whose original garden

Moncucco “The Langhe are never lost” confides the cousin of South Seas walking up the Moncucco hill, a viewpoint over Santo Stefano Belbo, dominating the

Nuto (whose real name was Pinolo Scaglione) is the mediator between the world of the intellectual, raised in the city, and the reality of the

When, in The Moon And The Bonfires, Anguilla comes back to his hometown after so many years, he stays at Albergo dell’Angelo (the Hotel of