Via Natta: Self-Guided Audio Tours

This self-guided walking audio tour introduces first-time visitors to Asti through its medieval towers, great churches, elegant palaces, and deep historical layers. It will especially appeal to travelers who enjoy sightseeing on foot and want a clear, engaging path through art, religion, civic history, and even the region’s prehistoric past. The route starts at the Church and sanctuary of Our Lord and the Gate of Paradise, and moves into the Museo Paleontologico Territoriale dell'Astigiano, where Asti’s story reaches back to the ancient sea that once covered this landscape. From there, you continue to the Cattedrale di Asti, and the Cripta di Sant'Anastasio, before stepping into the refined world of Palazzo Mazzetti - Pinacoteca Civica and the medieval presence of Torre Comentina. The walk then opens out at Piazza Statuto and returns to the civic and religious heart of the city at the Collegiata di San Secondo, Teatro Vittorio Alfieri, and Torre Troyana. The route also includes the Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano and La Venaria Reale as part of a wider historical thread that connects Asti to the making of modern Italy, before ending at the Baptistery of San Pietro in Consavia. Along the way, the most memorable moments include standing beneath Asti’s surviving towers, entering the vast cathedral, discovering fossils from a vanished sea, feeling the hush of an ancient crypt, and finishing beside one of the city’s most distinctive Romanesque monuments.