This itinerary includes 9 Municipalities located on the North-western area of Monferrato region, between the Province of Asti and the Province of Turin. It is not a case if two of these villages, Moriondo Torinese and Castagneto Po, are located just outside the area of G.A.L. Basso Monferrato, marking the border between the so called Hills of Saints, the zone of Romanesque churches and the Hills of the Po River.

This territory is characterized by the presence of the river; this large river, sinuous and present even if sometimes you cannot see it, crosses this area from Chivasso to Casale Monferrato, running along gentle slopes and giving the walker a series of very suggestive landscapes. A route of great naturalistic interest, thanks to the coexistence of woods and untouched river environments, that became in the time the ideal habitat for many indigenous kinds of high botanic and faunal value.

Among the wood, like in a natural mosaic, pastures, vineyards, vegetable gardens and orchards find space, showing the richness of  local cooking, from the “Fried Gobbo” (a kind of agnolotto) of Morasengo to the Green Peas of Casalborgone, from the breadsticks “Rubatà” of Berzano di San Pietro to the Corn Mush of Lauriano. 

A series of “total green” peculiarities that do not exclude the historic and artistic value of this territory, a strategic transit point, for reasons of faith, war and trade, from the time of Crusades up to the last world war. A net of paths and country lanes used for centuries by pilgrims and walkers, that stopped in the Romanesque churches or in the country chapels, still visible with their ancient charme: from the most famous sites, such as the Abbey of Saint Mary of Vezzolano, to the less known, for example the small Romanesque church of Saint George, located nearby Aramengo village.

Also the historical towns keep the traces of a glorious past. Among them, the Castle of Moriondo that, although renovated in more recent times, was built in the Middle Ages, and the fortified ricetto of Tonengo, dating back to the XII century and still recognizable in the current urban structure.