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Alessandria

MolinoDeiTortiPanorama1.jpg
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Elevation
76 m a.s.l.
Area
2.75 km²
Demonym
Molinesi
Patron saint
San Rocco

A closer look

Discovering Molino dei Torti

Molino dei Torti (Mulèj by Tòrt in the dialect of the city) is an Italian municipality of 562 inhabitants[1] from the province of Alessandria, in Piemonte.

Landscape and area

With Isola Sant'Antonio is the lowest common of the Piemonte .Explore this chapter

With Isola Sant'Antonio is the lowest common[4] of the Piemonte.

History of Molino dei Torti

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From 1928 to 1946 he was joined by the nearby Alzano Scrivia in a single municipality called Molino-Alzano.

Symbols

"Stemma d'azzurro, at the castle, torricellato di tre, merlato alla guelfa, the lower left tower, surmounted on the left by a golden bee, founded on the green countryside, crossed by the silver cotissa to mò of canal from mill. Exterior ornaments from Commune.[5][6]»

The banner is a blue cloth.

What to see in Molino dei Torti

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  • Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, dating back to the 19th century.
  • Pictures of Molino dei Torti
  • The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie
    The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie
  • The town hall
    The town hall

Society

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Demographic evolution

Inhabitants registered[7]

Economy

Typical agricultural product of the municipality is garlic, of which a festival-market is held every last weekend in August.Explore this chapter

Typical agricultural product of the municipality is garlic, of which a festival-market is held every last weekend of August.

Administration

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

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

Period First citizen Match Load Notes
June 17, 1985 May 26, 1990 Giannino Pasquali civic list Mayor [8]
May 26, 1990 April 24, 1995 Giannino Pasquali Christian Democracy Mayor [8]
April 24, 1995 March 21, 1998 Pier Vincenzo Oreste Torti centre-right Mayor [8]
November 30, 1998 May 27, 2003 Renato Caldirola civic list Mayor [8]
May 30, 2003 April 15, 2008 Renato Caldirola civic list Mayor [8]
April 15, 2008 May 27, 2013 Candido Carlo Meardi civic list Mayor [8]
June 27, 2013 June 10, 2018 Anna Fantato Civic list: Our Earth Mayor [8]
June 11, 2018 May 14, 2023 Anna Fantato Lista civica: Molino la Nostra Terra Mayor [8]
May 14, 2023 in office Mario Campanella Lista civica: Insieme per Molino Mayor [8]

Sport

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Soccer

The Sporting group Amateur Molinese represents the football team of the municipality of Molino dei Torti, its social colors are white and heavenly that are the same of the municipality of belonging.

Founded in 1985 as a Molinese Sports Group, it was transformed in 2016 into a sports group of amateurs Molinese. He has always militated in the championship Third Category Alessandria, winning in the season 1986/87 and 1992/93 the Trofeo Disciplina.

In the 1997/98 season, the club won the championship and was promoted to Second Category. The Second Category lasted only two years and Molinese returned to Terza, then landed again in the upper league only with the recurrence seen the defeat of Play Off, but the adventure lasted only one year.

In the 2013/14 season, Molinese regained promotion in Second Category after 12 years. This time the adventure of the Second Category lasted only one year.

At the end of the 2016/17 football season G.S.D. Molinese won his own group of Terza Category with 64 points and regained access to the Second Category. Also in the same season the team of Molino dei Torti won the Disciplina Cup as the most correct team at provincial level.

At the end of the 2017/18 football season G.S.D. Molinese reached 7th place in the standings, touching the play off area, best result ever in 2nd category of white-blue. Also worth mentioning in this season a positive streak of 17 consecutive useful results and especially the first win in derby with Castelnovese. The same result was unearthed in the following season, where the Biancoceleste club reached 8th place after a difficult start of the season, turning positively into the return group. Thanks to this season La Molinese for the first time conquered his second consecutive salvation in Second Category.

Notes

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  1. ^ to b Monthly demographic balance for the year 2026 (provisional data), up demo.istat.it, ISTAT.
  2. ^ Seismic classification (XLS), up risks.protezionecivile.gov.it.
  3. ^ 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).
  4. ^ Municipalities Piemonte for altitude, up Alltalia.it. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  5. ^ Piedmontese civic coat of arms, vol. II, Regional Council of Piemonte, 2016, p. 305, ISBN 978-88-96074-98-5.
  6. ^ Municipality of Molino dei Torti, Statutes, art. 2 c. 5 Territory, seat, coat of arms and gonfalone of the Municipality.
    «[...] classic shield with represented at the bottom of about a sixth of the entire surface, a green lawn with white oblique path leading to the base of the stronghold almost entirely occupying the remaining part and composed by a base in grey rectangular stones with arch portal and overstanti three circular towers, also in gray rectangle stones, having the upper submersity and only one right window visible In the right corner there is a golden edge, all the remaining part of the shield is drawn in blurred.»
  7. ^ Data taken from:
  8. ^ to b c d And f g h the http://amministratori.interno.it/

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