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Montabone: sights, history and trails

Asti

Elevation: 454 m s.l.m.
Area: 8.54 km2
Demonym: montabonesi
Patron saint: St. Anthony Abbot

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Discovering Montabone

Montabone (♪ in Piedmontese) is an Italian municipality of 308 inhabitants^[1] from the province of Asti in the Piemonte.

History of Montabone

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The Diocese of Acqui maintained control of the inhabited from the 11th century to 1164, when Emperor Frederick Barbarossa defended him and handed him over to marquises of Monferrato. At the time of the Paleologi dynasty, with the defeat suffered by Gian Giacomo Paleologo by Amedeo VIII of Savoy with the aim of stopping Monferrato's expansionist aims, the town came under Savoy control, and was then handed over to the Della Rovere-Bistagno and Caccia families, coming from Acqui Terme^[4].

The painter Guglielmo Caccia, said the Moncalvo (city where he died in 1625), was born here in 1568. The members of a branch of the Cazzola family became consignors of Montabone^[5].

Symbols

The coat of arms and gonfalone of the municipality of Montabone were granted by decree of the President of the Republic of 17 October 1961.^[6]

"From the blue, to the natural eagle, crowned with gold, on the explained flight, nailed on a mountain of nature, coming out from the tip, accompanied in the right canton of the head by a silver miter, crowded to a pastoral one of the same. Exterior ornaments from the Municipality.»

The gonfalone is a drape party of white and blue.

Society

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Demographic evolution

Inhabitants registered^[7]

Infrastructure and transport

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Railways

Montabone has a railway station, located in the municipality of Terzo, along the Alessandria-San Giuseppe di Cairo railway.

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
9 July 1985	May 24, 1990	Riccardo Pillone	Christian Democracy	Mayor	^[8]
May 24, 1990	April 24, 1995	Riccardo Pillone	Christian Democracy	Mayor	^[8]
April 24, 1995	June 14, 1999	Riccardo Pillone	center	Mayor	^[8]
June 14, 1999	June 14, 2004	Riccardo Pillone	civic list	Mayor	^[8]
June 14, 2004	June 8, 2009	Giuseppe Maurizio Aliardi	civic list	Mayor	^[8]
June 8, 2009	May 26, 2014	Giuseppe Maurizio Aliardi	civic list	Mayor	^[8]
May 26, 2014	May 27, 2019	Giovanni Giuseppe Gallo	Civics Jobs Freedom	Mayor	^[8]
May 27, 2019	June 10, 2024	Giovanni Giuseppe Gallo	Civics Jobs Freedom	Mayor	^[8]
June 10, 2024	in office	Giuseppe Maurizio Aliardi	Civics Jobs Freedom	Mayor	^[8]