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Comune Bassignana

The village stands on a peninsula, a slight elevation, formed by the confluence between the Rivers Tanaro and Po. Until the middle of the last century a ferry crossed the Tanaro, replaced in 1961 by a bridge. The River Po...

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Belforte Monferrato

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Comune Belforte

According to tradition, the first settlement was established by Saint Columbanus, an Irish monk and founder of the Abbey of Luxeuil in Bourgogne, from which comes the ancient name of Belforte Uxetium (small Luxeuil). Duri...

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Bergamasco

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Comune Bergamasco

Bergamasco is a typical country village, bordering with the province of Asti, with a strong farming vocation, today famous for the Regional Truffle Fair held every October. The first mention of the village of Bergamasco...

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Berzano di Tortona

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Comune Berzano di Tortona

Berzano is a small agricultural municipality located on the foothills of the hills, dominating the plain with an enchanting view of the Grue Valley and the lower Curone Valley. The population is distributed across numerou...

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Bistagno

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Comune Bistagno

Its origins date back to the Middle Ages. In 1253, during the period in which it was owned by the bishops of Acqui, Monsignor Enrico Del Carretto demolished the three hamlets that made up the town and replaced them with a...

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Borghetto di Borbera

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Comune Borghetto di Borbera

Located on the right bank of the Borbera stream, a tributary of the River Scrivia, Borghetto Borbera is 39 km from Alessandria and 295 m above sea level. The area of the municipality of Borghetto Borbera is one of the mo...

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Borgo San Martino

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Comune Borgo San Martino

Borgo San Martino, unlike other villages that had a more or less prolonged infancy, grew to adulthood. Its birth certificate, drawn up in Chivasso by the notary Ruffinus de Brandoleno, provides evidence of its founding da...

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Borgoratto Alessandrino

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Comune Borgoratto Alessandrino

Although it is probable that the town originated from a Roman stopping place on the Via Fulvia, near a ford on the Bormida, we have to wait until March 1203 to find the first written document and therefore the "instrument...

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Bosco Marengo

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Comune Bosco Marengo

Bosco Marengo is famous for being the birthplace of Antonio Ghislieri (1504-1572), who became pope in 1566 taking the name of Pius V, to date the only Piedmontese pontiff, among the key promoters of the Counter-Reformatio...

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Bosio

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Comune Bosio

The town is located between Ovada and Gavi, in the northern Ligurian Apennines, and its territory borders the municipality of Genoa on an Apennine ridge that represents the closest point in Piedmont to the sea: just 7 kil...

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Bozzole

Municipality

Comune Bozzole

Bozzole stands opposite Pomaro Castle, on the plain, a few hundred meters from the Po River. The name is open to various interpretations: it may reflect the name of the forest, a perennial, evergreen shrub of the Buxaceae...

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Brignano-Frascata

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Comune Brignano Frascata

Agricultural municipality of the Curone Valley, whose territory extends on the two sides of the valley. The town, divided into the two parts of Brignano and Frascata, is crossed by the Curone River. The main part, Bri...

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