{"id":3387,"date":"2015-06-18T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consorziodelroero.it\/en\/storia-territorio\/"},"modified":"2021-07-06T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:53:10","slug":"history-territory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.consorziodelroero.it\/en\/history-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Roero is an area that lies to the north of Alba (<span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"hps\">Piedmont)<\/span><\/span>, on the left bank of the <strong>River Tanaro<\/strong>, between the plain of Carmagnola and the low hills of Astigiano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From a geological point of view it is quite a young land<\/strong>, despite resting on a very ancient crystalline base. Up until 130 million years ago it was part of the bottom of an inland sea, called the <em>Golfo Padano<\/em>. Its terrain was formed by the <strong>sedimentation of debris<\/strong> of various lithological origins transported by marine currents that eroded the surrounding mountains, layering them through various stages of drying up and immersion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roero remained a shallow gulf until the Pliocene, as shown by the sandy sediments and marine clays. The emergence and formation of<strong> the Roero hills<\/strong> took place 2-3 million years ago. This drift also brought various types of soil to the surface: the deeper layers shifted uphill, whereas those more recent remained at the bottom of the valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the final surfacing the soil was covered once again by sediments of alluvial and wind origin. In that period Langhe and Roero formed a single plateau with the Tanaro and the Stura in the direction Bra \u2013 Carmagnola. The great friability of this marine-origin soil led to a progressive erosion. This shift occured between 220.000 and 150.000 years ago along the <strong>path of the Tanaro <\/strong>in the direction Alba \u2013 Asti, separating Langhe and Roero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The erosion of the river had a significant effect on the sandy soil of Roero, creating the <strong><em>Rocche<\/em><\/strong>, craggy mountain peaks that mark the watershed between the old and new Tanaro valley. They cut the territory from south-west to north-east, from Pocapaglia to Mont\u00e0, dividing the continental gravel and fluvial clay soils from those of marine origin, providing ideal vine-growing conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how the<strong> Roero territory<\/strong> was formed on the left bank of the river Tanaro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roero is an area that lies to the north of Alba (Piedmont), on the left bank of the River Tanaro, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3387","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.consorziodelroero.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.consorziodelroero.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.consorziodelroero.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.consorziodelroero.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.consorziodelroero.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.consorziodelroero.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13192,"href":"https:\/\/www.consorziodelroero.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3387\/revisions\/13192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.consorziodelroero.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}