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Cherasco


The city of Cherasco is located 288 meters above sea level, on the terrace formed by the river Stura di Demonte and Tanaro and has 8,422 inhabitants.
She was born November 12, 1243 at the behest of the City of Alba and the vicar of Frederick II, Manfredi Lancia still maintains the structure "castrum Romanum": a square with the streets that intersect parallel and perpendicular. Shows wide streets, arcades and important civic and religious buildings of medieval and baroque.

Cherasco was Angevin, the Visconti and then at the mercy of the Spanish and French in the first half of '500, until it finally became the Savoy (1559). In 1630 war broke out and this time it was added to the plague that spread throughout the Piedmont Cherasco immune from the contagion entertained the court with all the action. In the aftermath stayed in Cherasco the plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Spain, Mantua and Monferrato, Cardinal Mazarin and King Victor Amadeus I, who signed the peace that put an end to the war for the succession of Mantua and Monferrato.

In 1706, the court, retired from Turin besieged by the French, still residing in Cherasco. In 1796 the armistice was signed between Vittorio Amedeo III and France, which meant the final defeat of the Savoy State and the delivery of Cherasco to Napoleon. An illustrious history and important that the protagonist has made for centuries, today the name of Cherasco is linked to market Antiques, art exhibits, and two Palazzo Salmatoris delicatessen, the slugs and "Kisses Cherasco; the first famous thanks to the Institute of International and National Association of Heliciculture Elicicoltori that promote large-scale shellfish farming, the latter, chocolates with nuts and dark chocolate, on all local bakeries. The structure of the city, the street layout, the presence of the arcades make Cherasco center of one of the most suited to antique markets, proposed appointments for over twenty years in particular those of antiques and collectibles are three year (a spring in March or April, one in September and one in December).

Alongside these were born a number of specialized markets: the antique furniture and vintage (in May), ceramics and glass art, flanked by an area dedicated to the clock and antique collectors (in June); of antique books and paper, stamp collecting, music and recordings of period (in July); antique toy and model cars and the market exhibition of painting, sculpture and artistic craftsmanship (October) ; the market for organic food and natural high-quality chocolate copyright (in November).

Cherasco also became a destination for many visitors to its many and extraordinary events that mark the whole year: especially its famous shows, which occupy the seventeenth-century Palazzo Salmatoris and other places of minor exposure.

The art exhibitions at Palazzo Salmatoris, which take place from February to end year with a series of modern and contemporary painters, culminating in the autumn: in ten years Cherasco hosted names such as Picasso, De Pisis Liguabue, Campigli, Morandi, Guttuso De Chirico, Savino, Chagall, Miro, Magritte, Casorati and his School, Modigliani and the Italians in Paris, Carra.

From 9 October 2010 to 9 January 2011 will visit the exhibition: "Sironi, Guttuso, Widow - Art and political ideologies in confrontation."

Cherasco but is still more, his name is linked to the National Award "Cherasco History," Napoleon and costume parades every year recall the distant days of employment and an endless series of appointments and events.


INFO: Tourism Office of the City of Cherasco
Tel 0172.427050
Fax 0172.427055
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