Cereseto
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Country | Italy | |
region | Piedmont | |
province | Alessandria (AL) | |
Coordinates | 45 ° 5 ' N , 8 ° 19' E | |
height | 280 m slm | |
surface | 10.41 km² | |
Residents | 405 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density | 39 inhabitants / km² | |
Post Code | 15020 | |
prefix | 0142 | |
ISTAT number | 006057 | |
Popular name | Ceresetesi | |
View of Cereseto Monferrato with the castle |
Cereseto ( Piedmontese Ciarzin ) is a municipality with 405 (as of December 31, 2019) inhabitants in the Italian province of Alessandria (AL), Piedmont region .
The neighboring municipalities are Moncalvo ( AT ), Ottiglio , Ozzano Monferrato , Pontestura , Ponzano Monferrato , Sala Monferrato , Serralunga di Crea and Treville .
geography
The village is located at 280 meters above sea level. d. M. in the hilly landscape of Monferrato Casalese , east of the large connecting road SP 455/457 between Asti and Casale Monferrato . The municipality covers an area of 10 km² .
Economy and viticulture
At Cereseto, vines of the Barbera variety are grown for the Barbera d'Asti , a red wine with DOCG status.
Population development
In the course of rural exodus and industrialization, the place lost around two thirds of its inhabitants in the 20th century.
Castello di Cereseto
Around 1900 the extremely wealthy entrepreneur, financier, art collector and patron Riccardo Gualino (1879-1964) began building a neo-Romanesque-neo-Gothic castle in a dominant position over the town. The architect of the building was the engineer Vittorio Tornielli. In 1918 the Castello di Cereseto became one of the residences of the Turin family, where lavish parties were celebrated with guests from the Piedmontese business and financial world, from the Agnelli to the Sella. The castle was inhabited by the family until the second half of the 20th century and is therefore well preserved. A previous building on the same site, an early medieval fortress, was completely demolished in the 17th century.
Sons and daughters
- Francesco Sidoli (1874–1924), Roman Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Genoa
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
- ^ I mondi di Riccardo Gualino, collezionista e imprenditore , exhibition in the Sale Chiablese, Turin June 7th-3rd. November 2019. Catalogo della mostra, Ed. Musei Reali di Torino, Umberto Allemandi Publishing House, Turin 2019. Accessed 2019-10-24
- ^ R. Gualino: Frammenti di vita Mondadori, Milan 1931