Sentence examples for around alba from inspiring English sources

Around Alba, prime Barolo country, nebbiolo hogs most of the best vineyard sites.

For a few weeks in October and November, these pungent-smelling tubers, unearthed from the forests around Alba by wizened hunters with specially trained dogs, are sold in a market in the old city center.

The world's sweetest, most prized hazelnuts grow in the misty hills of the Alta Langa, the southern region of Piedmont around Alba. Roasted and ground with chocolate, the nuts helped the chocolate-makers stretch a scarce import.

In northern Italy, especially in the Piedmont region around Alba, which is prime truffle country, and in the eastern part of the country this summer's rains were a disaster for almost everything except truffles.

Word soon got around, and today Alba's tourism industry still depends on people's fascination with white truffles.

Southern Piedmont, in northwest Italy, specifically the regions around the towns of Alba and Asti, has become the center of the white truffle world because of the high concentration of truffles and, consequently, of those who hunt them.

In the old photo, Gattinara, with its concentration of vines, resembles the better known Langhe region of Piedmont, about 150 kilometers, or 95 miles, to the south, around the city of Alba.

The Duan Albanach (Song of the Scots) tells that the three sons of Erc Fergus Mór, Loarn and Óengus conquered Alba (Scotland) around 500 AD.

In his four-piece "Alba Passion," probably woven around 1525, he mixed equal parts Raphael and Dürer in an energetic, somewhat fidgety expressive blend.

For S. × hainanensis, we counted the number of individuals of S. alba only around the range of S. ovata and S. × hainanensis.

Archaeal histones act as spools that DNA wraps around (similar to their eukaryotic homologs), whereas Alba proteins form extended filamentous fibers containing DNA [47].