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Bergamasco.jpg Mosque Palace
Image: Giacomo cellerino · CC BY-SA 4.0
Elevation
125 m above sea level
Area
13.44 km²
Demonym
bergamaschesi
Patron saint
Saint James and the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Discovering Bergamasco

Bergamasco (Bergamäss in Piedmont) is an Italian municipality of 658 inhabitants[2] from the province of Alessandria, in Piemonte, close to the hills of Monferrato, on the left bank of the stream Belbo. It is located in the UNESCO area, famous for the production of wines.

History of Bergamasco

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Roccaforte owned by the Marquis of Incisa since before the year 1000, joined the Marchesato del Monferrato in 1514, after the conquest of Incisa Scapaccino by Guglielmo IX Paleologo, who almost razed it to the ground. Since then the fate of Monferrato followed.

Symbols

The coat of arms and gonfalone of the municipality of Bergamasco were granted by the decree of the President of the Republic of 11 March 1991.[5]

«Stemma truncato: in the first of blue, at nine stars of five rays, of gold, placed three, three, two, one; in the second, of silver, to the castle of blue, walled of black, formed by two towers lying to the Ghibelline of three, gathered from the curtain of wall, deprived of merlons and closed of black. Exterior ornaments from Commune.[6]»

In the coat of arms is resumed the blason of the Marquis of Incisa who was of blue, nine golden stars: 3, 3, 2, 1.

The gonfalone is a white drape.

What to see in Bergamasco

In Bergamasco there is a castle, the "Marchional Palace of Bergamasco ", built between 1663 and 1685 by the Marchesi Moscheni. Currently it is private (the owner has been the...Explore this chapter

A Bergamasco stands a castle, the "Palazzo Marchionale di Bergamasco", built between 1663 and 1685 by the Marchesi Moscheni. Currently it is private (the owner was the stage designer Carlo Leva) and hosts a cinema museum; a musical event in May is held and you can visit every Sunday afternoon from June 2nd to October. It is inserted in the circuit of "Open Castles" of Basso Piemonte.[7]

Worthy of note is also the Church of St. Peter, the oldest cult building in the country.[8]

In 1985 in Bergamasco was found at the farm estate of S. Christopher a Roman sarcophagus dating back to the 2nd century, used as a watering machine. According to the engraved inscription, it appears to belong to a freedom named Calventius, of the Papiria tribe. The reperto is now kept in the hall of the municipality.[9]

Culture

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Events

  • Truffle Fair, in October

Society

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Demographic evolution

In the last seventy years, since 1951, the resident population It's halved..

Inhabitants registered[10]

Administration

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Below is a table relating to the administrations that have succeeded one another in this municipality.

Period First citizen Match Load Notes
June 10, 1985 May 25, 1990 Gian Luigi Tonello - Mayor [11]
May 25, 1990 April 24, 1995 Gian Luigi Tonello - Mayor [11]
April 24, 1995 June 14, 1999 Gian Luigi Tonello left Mayor [11]
June 14, 1999 June 14, 2004 Federico Barberis civic list Mayor [11]
June 14, 2004 June 8, 2009 Federico Barberis civic list Mayor [11]
June 8, 2009 May 26, 2014 Gianni Welcome civic list Mayor [11]
May 26, 2014 May 27, 2019 Gianni Welcome Lista civica: Pace lavoro Mayor [11]
May 27, 2019 June 9, 2024 Giulio Veggi Lista civica: Insieme per Bergamasco Mayor [11]
June 9, 2024 in office Gianluigi Ratti Lista civica: Insieme per Bergamasco Mayor [11]

Other administrative information

In 1928 he incorporated the common suppression of Carentino, which will become independent again in 1955.[12]

Notes

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  1. ^ Municipality of Bergamasco : Municipal Administration and Mayor - Municipality of Bergamasco and city, Alessandria, Piemonte, up www.comune-italia.it. URL consulted on 5 August 2026.
  2. ^ to b Monthly demographic balance for the year 2026 (provisional data), up demo.istat.it, ISTAT.
  3. ^ Seismic classification (XLS), up risks.protezionecivile.gov.it.
  4. ^ Table of degrees/day of Italian Municipalities grouped by Region and Province (PDF), in Law 26 August 1993, n. 412, annex A, National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, 1 March 2011, p. 151. URL consulted on 25 April 2012 (archived fromoriginal url on 1 January 2017).
  5. ^ Bergamasco, decree 1991-03-11 DPR, concession of coat of arms and gonfalone, up Heraldic office - Municipal files, Central State Archives.
  6. ^ Piedmontese civic coat of arms, vol. I, Regional Council of Piemonte, 2016, p. 47, ISBN 978-88-96074-98-5.
  7. ^ Bergamasco Castle, up common.bergamasco.al.it.
  8. ^ Church of St. Peter, up archeocarta.org.
  9. ^ Bergamasco (AL) : Retrovamenti e Chiesa di San Pietro, in Archeocarta, 29 August 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  10. ^ Data taken from:
  11. ^ to b c d And f g h the http://amministratori.interno.it/
  12. ^ Administrative history of Bergamasco, up elesh.it.

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