Alessandria
Encyclopedia
Monuments
- The Citadel (18th century)
- The church of Santa Maria di Castello (14th and 15th century)
- The church of Santa Maria del Carmine (15th century)
- Palazzo Ghilini (1733)
- Università del Piemonte Orientale
Museums
- The Marengo Battle Museum
- Antiquarium Forum Fulvii
- Sale d'arte
- I percorsi del Museo Civico
- Museo del Fiume
- Museo di Scienze Naturali e Planetario
- Museo Etnografico "C'era una volta"
- Museo del Cappello Borsalino
Sistema dei musei civici
Events
- The annual Fraskettando SkaBluesJazz Festival (official web site), which takes place on the first weekend of July, has showcased the Blues Brothers, Eddie FloydEddie FloydEddie Lee Floyd is an American soul/R&B singer and songwriter, best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s and the song "Knock on Wood".-Biography:...
, Al Di MeolaAl Di MeolaAl Di Meola is an acclaimed American jazz fusion and Latin guitarist, composer, and record producer of Italian origin. With a musical career that has spanned more than three decades, he has become respected as one of the most influential guitarists in jazz to date...
, Taj MahalTaj MahalThe Taj Mahal is a white Marble mausoleum located in Agra, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal...
, Soft MachineSoft MachineSoft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre...
, Mario BiondiMario BiondiMario Biondi is an Italian writer, poet, literary critic, journalist and translator. His reputation is mainly due to the novel Gli occhi di una donna, which earned him the important Italian award Premio Campiello in 1985...
, Mick AbrahamsMick AbrahamsMichael Timothy 'Mick' Abrahams was the original guitarist for Jethro Tull. He recorded the album This Was with the band in 1968, but conflicts between Abrahams and Ian Anderson over the musical direction of the band led Abrahams to leave once the album was finished...
& Clive BunkerClive BunkerClive William Bunker is a British rock drummer. He was the original drummer in the British band Jethro Tull....
and many others. - Michele Pittaluga International Classical Guitar CompetitionMichele Pittaluga International Classical Guitar CompetitionThe "Michele Pittaluga" International Classical Guitar Competition is an annual music competition for young classical guitarists held in Alessandria, Italy. It was founded in 1968 and has earned an international reputation, entering membership of the World Federation of International Music...
Premio Città di Alessandria - International Rally "Madonnina dei Centauri".official web site
Transport
Alessandria railway stationAlessandria railway station
Alessandria railway station serves the city and comune of Alessandria, in the Piedmont region, northwestern Italy. Opened in 1850, it forms part of the Turin–Genoa railway, and is also a junction for six other lines, to Piacenza, Arona, Pavia, Cavallermaggiore, Ovada and San Giuseppe di Cairo,...
, opened in 1850, forms part of the Turin–Genoa railway. It is also a junction
Junction (rail)
A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge.This implies a physical connection between the tracks of the two routes , 'points' and signalling.one or two tracks each meet at a junction, a fairly simple layout of tracks suffices to...
for six other lines, to Piacenza, Arona, Pavia, Cavallermaggiore, Ovada and San Giuseppe di Cairo, respectively.
People born in Alessandria
- Saint BaudolinoSaint BaudolinoSaint Baudolino was a hermit who lived at the time of the Lombard king Liutprand in Forum Fulvii , a locality on the lower reaches of the river Tanaro in north-west Italy. He is said to have been the son of a noble family, but to have given all his wealth to the poor before moving to a miserable...
(c.700–c.740), hermit of Forum FulviiForum FulviiForum Fulvii was a small but flourishing Ligurian/Celtic first, then Roman settlement on the Via Fulvia, a road of north-west Italy, probably laid out by M. Fulvius Flaccus, consul in 125 BCE, from Dertona to Hasta Pompeia... - Francesco Filiberti (15th century), sculptor
- Georgius MerulaGeorgius MerulaGeorgius Merula was an Italian humanist and classical scholar born in Alessandria in Piedmont. The greater part of his life was spent in Venice and Milan, where he held a professorship and continued to teach until his death...
(c. 1430–1494), humanistHumanismHumanism is an approach in study, philosophy, world view or practice that focuses on human values and concerns. In philosophy and social science, humanism is a perspective which affirms some notion of human nature, and is contrasted with anti-humanism.... - Giovanni Mazzoni (15th–16th century), painter
- Giorgio Soleri (16th century), painter
- Giuseppe VermiglioGiuseppe VermiglioGiuseppe Vermiglio was a Caravaggist painter from Northern Italy, active also in Rome.Our knowledge of Vermiglio’s life is sketchy. It is probable that he was born in Alessandria...
(16th–17th centuries), painter - Giovanni MigliaraGiovanni MigliaraGiovanni Migliara , was a nobleman and Italian painter who was active at the beginning of the 19th century.- Biography :...
(1785–1837), painter - Andrea Vochieri (1796–1833), patriot
- Urbano RattazziUrbano RattazziUrbano Pio Francesco Rattazzi was an Italian statesman.-Biography:He was born in Alessandria . He studied law at Turin, and in 1838 began his practice, which met with marked success at the capital and Casale. In 1848, Rattazzi was sent to the Sardinian chamber of deputies in Turin as...
(1808–1873), statesman of the Risorgimento - Francesco Faà di BrunoFrancesco Faà di BrunoFrancesco Faà di Bruno was an Italian mathematician and priest, born at Alessandria. He was of noble birth, and held, at one time, the rank of captain-of-staff in the Sardinian Army. He is the eponym of Faà di Bruno's formula...
(1825–1888), mathematician and priest - Virginia Marini (1844–1918), actress
- Angelo MorbelliAngelo MorbelliAngelo Morbelli was an Italian painter.-Biography:A grant from the City Council of Alessandria enabled Morbelli to enrol at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, in 1867. He was awarded the Fumagalli Prize at the Brera exhibition of 1883 for Last Days as well as a gold medal at the Paris...
(1854–1919), painter - BlessedBeatificationBeatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name . Beatification is the third of the four steps in the canonization process...
Teresa Grillo Michel (1855–1944), founder of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of Divine Providence. - Sibilla AleramoSibilla AleramoSibilla Aleramo was an Italian author and feminist best known for her autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy.- Life and career :Born Rina Faccio in Alessandria, Piedmont...
(1876–1960), painter - Pietro Morando (1889–1980), painter
- Giovanni FerrariGiovanni FerrariGiovanni Ferrari was an Italian football player. He played 125 times for Juventus F.C and scored 35 goals for the club...
(1907–1982), footballer - Walter AudisioWalter AudisioWalter Audisio was an Italian partisan and communist politician. He was responsible for the death of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.- Biography :...
(1909–1973), partisan - Franco SassiFranco SassiFranco Sassi was an Italian painter, printmaker and engraver.- Biography :He started his career as a graphic designer at the time when lithographic engraving was still made on the Alois Senefelder stone...
(1912–1993), painter - Umberto EcoUmberto EcoUmberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...
(born 1932), writer - Gianni RiveraGianni RiveraGiovanni Rivera is an Italian former football midfielder, mostly as an offensive playmaker, who was awarded the Ballon d'Or, one of the most prestigious individual awards in football, in 1969. He played the majority of his career with Serie A side A.C. Milan...
(born 1943), footballer - Gian Luigi BonelliGian Luigi BonelliGiovanni Luigi Bonelli , was an Italian comic book author and writer.Born in Milan, he is best remembered as the co-creator of Tex Willer, together with artist Aurelio Galleppini. His son Sergio Bonelli was also a comic book writer, as well as the publisher of Tex Willer series until his own death...
(1908–2001), Italian comic book author and writer - Marta GastiniMarta GastiniMarta Gastini is an Italian actress, best known for her supporting role in the 2011 film The Rite.-Life and career:...
(born 1989), actress - José Rinaldi (1925-2011)
Twin towns — Sister cities
Alessandria is twinned with: ArgenteuilArgenteuil
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, France
France
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, since 1960 Jericho
Jericho
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, West Bank
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, since 2004 Hradec Králové
Hradec Králové
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, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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, since 1961 Karlovac
Karlovac
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, Croatia
Croatia
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, since 1963 Rosario
Rosario
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, Argentina
Argentina
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, since 1988 Alba Iulia
Alba Iulia
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, Romania
Romania
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, since 1990
See also
- Villa del Foro, a western suburb of the town which was the site of a Roman settlement.
External links
- The official website of the city council
- Guide to Alessandria city – Information, phone numbersTelephone numberA telephone number or phone number is a sequence of digits used to call from one telephone line to another in a public switched telephone network. When telephone numbers were invented, they were short — as few as one, two or three digits — and were given orally to a switchboard operator...
and useful link - Travel Guide to Alessandria
- discount for young people of Alessandria (Archived 2009-10-25)