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13 unusual facts about Asti


7459 Gilbertofranco

It is named after Gilberto Franco, an amateur astronomer, medical doctor in San Damiano d'Asti, Italy, and friend of Zappalà.

Angelo Sodano

The second of six children, Angelo Sodano was born in Isola d'Asti, Piedmont, to Giovanni and Delfina Sodano.

Barbera d'Asti

The first written proof of vinification is stored in the city hall of Nizza Monferrato and dates back to the seventeenth century.

It is produced in the hilly areas of the provinces of Asti (67 municipalities) and Alexandria (51 municipalities).

The wine enters officially in the roll of Piedmontese wines in 1798, the date of the first Ampelography made by Giuseppe Nuvolone-Pergamo, count of Scandaluzza from the Società Agraria di Torino (Agricultural Society of Turin).

Brachetto d'Acqui

While the Brachetto grape is believed to be native to Piedmont (with the Monferrato hills and the area around Asti being the most likely home of the grape), some ampelographers have speculated as early as the late 19th century that the grape might actually be French in origin.

Master of Wine Mary Ewing-Mulligan describes Brachetto d'Acqui very aromatic sweet red wine that can have floral and fruit notes similar to Moscato d'Asti and Lambrusco.

Ettore Desderi

Born in Asti, He studied composition at the conservatory in Turin, graduating in 1921, as well as undertaking studies in architecture, which he completed in 1920.

Freylinia tropica

Named after the botanist, Pietro Lorenzo, the last Count of Freylino, owner of a famous garden at Buttigliera d'Asti near Torino in Italy in the early 19th century.

Maurizio Lobina

Born in Asti, Lobina is a former member of the band Vitanova.

Montechiaro

Montechiaro d'Asti - a town and comune in the Province of Asti, Italy

Renato Biasi

Renato Biasi (born 6 March 1966 in Asti) is a retired Italian footballer.

Sergio Gonella

Sergio Gonella (born 23 May 1933, in Asti, Italy) is an Italian businessman (Bank Manager) and a noted football referee.


Alameda Science and Technology Institute

One of the very first Early College High Schools in California to receive funding through a catalytic "start-up" grant made available by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, ASTI's funding intermediaries are the Foundation for California Community Colleges and Jobs for the Future.

Battle of Roccavione

John also ruled over Asti until 1372, but seven years later the city council submitted to Galeazzo II Visconti's authority.

Boniface II, Marquess of Montferrat

However, Boniface's main sights were set not on the Piedmont but on nearby Alessandria: from 1227, when he strengthened an alliance with Asti, he continued until his death to fight the Alessandrini.

Carlo Alberto Castigliano

Carlo Alberto Castigliano (9 November 1847, Asti – 25 October 1884, Milan) was an Italian mathematician and physicist known for Castigliano's method for determining displacements in a linear-elastic system based on the partial derivatives of strain energy.

Castagnole

Castagnole delle Lanze, a municipality in the Province of Asti, Piedmont

Castagnole Monferrato, a municipality in the Province of Asti, Piedmont

Cerrina Monferrato

In 2005 Cerrina was the epicentre of swarms of locusts or grasshoppers (the local Calliptamus italicus) which, unprecedented in their magnitude and moving at speeds of up to 55 km/h, threatened the vineyards of Monferrato and the province of Asti.

Esenboğa International Airport

The airport is connected with Kızılay (the city center) and Ankara Intercity Bus Terminal (Turkish: Ankara Şehirlerarası Terminal İşletmesi, AŞTİ) by EGO city bus number 442 (from 6 am to 11pm).

Faà di Bruno

Faà di Bruno is the name of an Italian noble family based in the areas of Asti, Casale, and Alessandria, which provided the Counts (later Marquises) of Bruno.

Francesco Gonin

He paints theaters of Asti and Vigevano, the Cathedral of Alessandria, the church della Sforzesca, and the figures at the waiting hall of the train station of Porta Nuova.

Giovanni Carlo Aliberti

Gian Carlo Aliberti (also Giancarlo and Giovanni Carlo; 1 March 1662–1740) was born in Canelli, near Asti in north-west Italy, studied in Rome and became a prolific Piedmontese painter of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Gundoald, Duke of Asti

There Theudelinda married Authari in May, and Gundoald was invested with the duchy of Asti and the hand of a granddaughter of King Wacho in marriage.

Incisa

Incisa Scapaccino (originally Incisa Belbo), a municipality in the province of Asti.

Italian Jews

Another distinctive community was that of Asti, Fossano and Moncalvo, which was descended from Jews expelled from France in 1394: this community includes the well-known Lattes family.

Italian War of 1499–1504

If the King Louis XII were to die without producing a male heir, Charles of the House of Habsburg would receive as dowry the Duchy of Milan, Genoa and its dependencies, the Duchy of Brittany, the counties of Asti and Blois, the Duchy of Burgundy, the Viceroyalty of Auxonne, Auxerrois, Mâconnais and Bar-sur-Seine.

Iudiciaria Torrensis

The district appears to have lost its status in the mid to late tenth century and its territory to have been divided between the counties of Turin, Asti and Vercelli and subsequently between the Aleramici, the Bishops of Asti, and the Bishops of Vercelli.

Jarasandha

Therefore, on the advice of his close friend king Banasura, Jarasandh decided to get his two daughters 'Asti and Prapti' married to the heir apparent of Mathura, Kansa.

March of Ivrea

The initial Eporedian march consisted of Piedmont and most of the Ligurian coast with the counties of Acqui, Alba, Asti, Bredulo, Auriate, Turin, Ivrea, Vercelli, Pombia, Stazzona, Bulgaria, Lomello, Savona, and Ventimiglia.

Montemagno

Montemagno, Piedmont, a comune (municipality) in the Province of Asti

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza Monferrato is one the comuni in the province of Asti that take part in the Palio di Asti on the third Sunday of September, in Asti.

Palio di Asti

On May 3, 1936, during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, soldiers of the 104th Legion of Black Shirts, mainly composed of Asti residents, ran a special donkey palio on the banks of Lake Ashenge in Ethiopia.

Perceval Doria

Between 1228 and 1243 he assumed the character of a podestà in several Provençal and north Italian cities, such as Arles, Avignon, Asti, and Parma.

Piero Camporesi

(edit by) Vittorio Alfieri, Estratti d'Ossian e da Stazio per la tragica (Asti: Casa d'Alfieri, 1969)

Prince Giuseppe, Count of Asti

Catching malaria in 1802, Asti died of the disease having had a fit of convulsions and was buried at the Cathedral of Alghero.

San Marzano

San Marzano Oliveto, Italian municipality of the Province of Asti, Piedmont

San Marzano Oliveto

It is easily visible from the SS6 road that runs from Canelli to Asti.

William VII, Marquess of Montferrat

Having become the military leader of various Lombard cities, including Pavia, Vercelli, Alessandria, Tortona, Genoa, Turin, Asti, Alba, Novara, Brescia, Cremona, and Lodi, he was also elected head of the anti-Angevin coalition.