For a long time, it was the taste expectation of a generation that only dreamed of the land al pié dei monti - at the foot of the mountains - because of it: the Monchérie cherry from Piedmont, the most media-effective emblem of a region that does not actually exist. On the trail of what is special about this landscape, something quite different reveals itself: the dolce farniente, the famous sensual indolence of the Piedmontese, which we indulge in four pleasurable parts of this journey through Italy's most charming region.