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4 unusual facts about Casale Monferrato


Chivasso–Alessandria railway

The section from Casale Monferrato to Valenza was opened on 22 March 1857 as part of the railway from Vercelli to Valenza.

Hippolyte Hanry

Hippolyte Hanry (15 April 1807, Casale Monferrato, Italy – 1893) was a French botanical collector and taxonomist.

Krumiri

Krumiri are a kind of biscuit which is regarded as the particular delicacy of Casale Monferrato, the city in north-west Italy where they were invented in 1878 by the confectioner Domenico Rossi.

Paolo Frisi

When twenty-one years of age he composed a treatise on the figure of the earth, and the reputation which he soon acquired led to his appointment by the King of Sardinia to the professorship of philosophy in the College of Casale.


Cascarolo bianco

For many centuries Cascarolo bianco was widely planted throughout Piedmont, particularly around the communes of Chieri and Pinerolo in the province of Turin, Casale Monferrato in the province of Alessandria and Moncalvo in the province of Asti.

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 Ottavio Magnocavalli

Born in Casale Monferrato to Ippolito, count of Varengo (today part of the commune of Gabiano) and the countess Veronica Pico Pastrona, he studied at a Jesuit college in Parma.

Giuseppe Maria Boschi

During the first decade of the century he is known to have performed at Casale Monferrato, Vicenza, Ferrara, Vienna, Bologna and at Venice, where he created the role of Pallas in Handel's Agrippina for the 1709–1710 Carnevale season.

Motta de' Conti

Motta de' Conti borders the following municipalities: Candia Lomellina, Caresana, Casale Monferrato, Langosco, and Villanova Monferrato.

Sebastiano Guala

Sebastiano Guala was an Italian church architect active between 1640–1680 in the area of Casale Monferrato, then capital of the Gonzaga-ruled state of Montferrat.

Stephan Schmidheiny

After years of investigation, the Prosecutor Raffaele Guariniello and his team acted on behalf of 2,619 former Eternit employees from the Italian factories in Casale Monferrato (Province of Alessandria), Cavagnolo (Province of Turin), Rubiera (Province of Reggio Emilia) and Bagnoli (Naples) and 270 family members or local residents who received para occupational or environmental exposure to Eternit asbestos.

Villanova Monferrato

Located in the plain to the left of the Po, it the most northerly comune in the province, and borders on the comuni of Caresana, Motta de' Conti, Rive, and Stroppiana in the Vercelli, as well as those of Balzola and Casale Monferrato in the Province of Alessandria.


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Costantino Sereno

Among other fresco works are those for the Palazzo Carignano in Turin; the Duomo of Casale Monferrato (1860-1861); the Sanctuary della Consolata, Church of San Secondo, and of Maria Ausiliatrice in Turin; Angels and the Assumption of the Virgin (1865) for the parish church of Fubine, Alessandria.

Guazzo

Stefano Guazzo (1530–1593), Italian writer from Casale Monferrato

Paper-and-pencil game

Andrea Angiolino, 101 giochi con carta e matita - tradizionali e innovativi, per allenare la mente divertendosi, Edizioni Sonda, Casale Monferrato, 2008

Studium, Accademia di Casale e del Monferrato per l’Arte, la Letteratura, la Storia,le Scienze e le Varie Umanità

degli Uberti, a knigh of several noted chivalric orders (Equestrian Order of the Saint Gregory the Great, The Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George and honorary member of the Accademia di Marina di Santo Stefano di Pisa) also served as vice-president of Kiwanis Club of Casale Monferrato (1978-1979).

Synagogue of Casale Monferrato

The Synagogue of Casale Monferrato, which was built in 1595, is particularly known for its exquisite Baroque interior with walls and ceiling embellished with elaborate painting, carving and gilding.