Battle of Marengo
The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy.
Valenza (Valensa in Piedmontese) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) east of Turin and about 11 kilometres (7 mi) north of Alessandria.
Population: 17,305
Latitude: 45° 00' 48.06" N
Longitude: 8° 38' 10.36" E
The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy.
The March (also margraviate or marquisate) of Montferrat was a frontier march of the Kingdom of Italy during the Middle Ages and a state of the Holy Roman Empire.
Edizioni Piemme is an Italian book publisher with specialisms in religion, and in fiction for children and young adults. Since October 2003 it has been part of the Mondadori group which acquired 70% of its equity at a cost of 14.104 million Euros.
The Tanaro (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtaːnaro]), known as Tanarus in ancient times and Tane or Tani in piedmontese language, is a 276-kilometre (171 mi) long river in northwestern Italy. It rises in the Ligurian Alps, close to the border with France …
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. It is located in Vicolo Salmone Olper, an alleyway…
Spinetta Marengo (Marengh in piedmontese) is a town in Piedmont, Italy located within the municipal boundaries of the comune of Alessandria.
The Sesia (Latin Sesites or Sessites) is a river in north-western Italy, tributary to the Po.
Forum Fulvii was a small but flourishing Ligurian/Celtic first, then Roman settlement on the Via Fulvia, a road of north-west Italy, probably laid out by M. Fulvius Flaccus, consul in 125 BCE, from Dertona (today’s Tortona) to Hasta Pompeia (Asti).
The Staffora is a river of the Oltrepò Pavese in the Province of Pavia, north-west Italy and a right-side tributary of the Po.
The Sacro Monte di Crea (literally ‘Sacred Mountain of Crea’, although it is built on a hill rather than a mountain) is a Roman Catholic sanctuary in the comune of Serralunga di Crea, Piedmont, northern Italy.
The Agogna (in Piedmontese Agògna) is a 140-kilometre (87 mi) stream which runs through the Italian regions of Piedmont and Lombardy.
The Scrivia, 117 kilometres (73 mi) long, is a right tributary of the Po River, in northern Italy.
The Belbo is a river of southern Piedmont, Italy.
The Orba is a torrent (Italian: torrente — a stream whose flow shows a very marked seasonal variation) of northern Italy. Its c. 70 km course runs northwards through Piedmont from its springs in the Apennines to its confluence with the Bormida, a ri…
The Bormida (Bormia in Piedmontese language) is a river of north-west Italy which rises in Liguria, as the Bormida di Millesimo and flows through Piedmont.
Alessandria railway station (Italian: Stazione di Alessandria) serves the city and comune of Alessandria, in the Piedmont region, northwestern Italy.
The Arbogna Erbognone is an Italian stream whose sources is south of Novara in the province of Novara.
Casale Monferrato railway station is the main station of Casale Monferrato, in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, and is now the only one at which passenger trains stop.