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CASALE MONFERRATO

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 440 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASALE MONFERRATO , a See also:

town and episcopal see of See also:Piedmont, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Alessandria, 21 M. N.N.W. by See also:rail from the town of Alessandria. Pop. (1901) 18,874 (town); 31,370 (See also:commune). It lies in the See also:plain on the right See also:bank of the Po, 377 ft. above See also:sea-level, and is a junction for See also:Mortara, See also:Vercelli. See also:Chivasso and See also:Asti; it is also connected by See also:steam tramways with Alessandria, Vercelli and Montemagno. The See also:fine Lombard Romanesque See also:cathedral, originally founded in 742, was rebuilt in the See also:early 12th See also:century and consecrated in 11o6; it suffered from restoration in 1706, but has been brought back to its See also:original See also:form. It contains some See also:good pictures. The See also:church of S. Domenico is a good See also:Renaissance edifice, and there are some fine palaces. The church of S. Ilario is said to occupy the site of a See also:pagan See also:temple, but the name of the See also:ancient town (if any) which occupied this site is not known.

About ro m. distant is the Sacro See also:

Monte di Crea, with eighteen chapels on its slopes containing terra-See also:cotta See also:groups of statues, resembling those at Varallo. Casale Monferrato was given by See also:Charlemagne to the church of Vercelli, but obtained its See also:liberty from See also:Frederick I. (See also:Barbarossa). It was sacked by the troops of Vercelli, Alessandria and See also:Milan in 1215, but rebuilt and fortified in 1220. It See also:fell under the See also:power of its marquises in 1292, and became the See also:chief town of a small See also:state. In 1536 it passed to the Gonzagas of See also:Mantua, who fortified it very strongly. It has since been of considerable importance as a fortress: it successfully resisted the Austrians in 1849, and was strengthened in 1852. There is a large See also:Portland See also:cement factory here.

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