Cereseto

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Cereseto
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Cereseto (Italy)
Cereseto
Country Italy
region Piedmont
province Alessandria  (AL)
Coordinates 45 ° 5 '  N , 8 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 5 '19 "  N , 8 ° 19' 16"  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
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

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

Individual evidence

  1. Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ R. Gualino: Frammenti di vita Mondadori, Milan 1931

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