Alessandriaאלסנדריה

Piedmont, Italy

Alessandria is a city in Piedmont, northwestern Italy. It was founded in 1168 as a stronghold of the Lombard League against Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and named after Pope Alexander III, and it withstood Barbarossa's siege of 1174-75. It passed to the Duchy of Savoy after the Peace of Utrecht and was fortified with a star-shaped citadel, and the Battle of Marengo was fought on its territory in 1800. Pope Pius V was born in 1504 at nearby Bosco, now Bosco Marengo. A Jewish ghetto was established in 1724, and the synagogue on Via Milano was attacked by Fascist supporters in December 1943.

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