Cassine: sights, history and trails

Cited as the territory of the episcopate of Acqui in documents of the 10th century, it was donated in 1164 to the marquis of Monferrato by Emperor Frederick I. Conteso from the municipality of Alessandria, it was from this conquered and destroyed in 1231 and subject to an annual tribute to the Alexandrians.

He was occupied by Facino Cane in 1404 and became a fortified village and had to undergo the siege of the Marquis of Monferrato (1451), the occupation of Charles V (1556) and the French (1644).

In 1707 he was annexed to the Saudi domains, of which he followed his fortunes.

Cassine gave birth to one of the greatest singers in Italian music: Luigi Tenco, born in 1938.

The church of San Francesco, dating back to the 13th-XIV century in Lombard Gothic style, has a terracotta façade decorated with hanging arches and a strombato gate; it presents with two skewers added in 1644. Inside there are frescoes made from the 14th to the 16th century. Important wooden crucifix of the end of the fifteenth century. In the former convent Sala Capitolare with frescoes of the fourteenth century. Represents one of the most important medieval churches in Piemonte.

Palazzo Zoppi, from the 14th century, was born as a house fort, later transformed into a residential building by the family that owned the fief of the town. It preserves inside fifteenth-century frescoes including "Il Gioco della Palma", scenes of hunting and birding, while in the courtyard of honor are preserved archaeological finds from Acqui Terme and Libarna. In the palace there is a chapel of kindness, inside which there is a fresco of fifteenth century Lombard school.

Casa Arcasio is an architectural complex located near the town hall, of vast proportions and dating back to the Middle Ages. Inside there is a small courtyard with portico and Late Renaissance loggia and a 16th-century portal. During the 19th century a square-based tower was inserted as a weather observatory.

There are also other minor noble palaces such as the Pietrasanta house, Buzzi-Pietrasanta house, Delfante house, Cuttica Mazzoleni house, Syria house, Porri house, Pero house, Guerrina house, Gambarotta house, Pellazza house, Trotti house, Torri house, Scazzola house, Pellizzari building, Abborati house,^[6]

The convent of Capuchin friars, located where once the castle was destroyed by the French in 1644, dates back to the 17th century. Of the large complex, is part of the church that preserves the oil painting depicting the miraculous image of the Virgin of the Capuchin Church of Recanati. Today it is privately owned by a winery.

The parish church of Santa Caterina (XVIII century) Baroque construction to a nave. The church presents the mural parameter in terracotta exposed, with constilatura alla cappuccina together with its subsidiary church of Santa Maria di Fontaniale also baroque and sita in the hamlet Gavonata.

The historical monuments of Cassine (in particular the church of S. Francesco) were, for the Alexandrian painter Franco Sassi (1912 - 1993), a reason of great interest and suggestion. He dedicated to them watercolors, white/black of the so-called series of "medieval landscapes" and oils on canvas. In the "Medieval landscapes" the Lombard Gothic church becomes a fantastic element of surreal visions.

A Cassine there is a train station, located on the line Alessandria- Saint Joseph of Cairo.

In the early 1900s was built the station of Caranzano-Sant'Andrea, both fractions of the municipality of Cassine. Currently the stop is abandoned.

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

The football team, the Cassine Sports Union (U.S. Cassine) was founded in 1936, its social colors are grey and blue, it reached the moment of maximum splendor playing the Championship of Excellence in the 1969/70 sports season.