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Asti

Bric Puschera.jpg
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Elevation
588 m asl.
Area
12.33 km²
Demonym
serolion
Patron saint
San Lorenzo

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Discovering Serole

Serole (You're not. in Piedmont) is an Italian municipality of 96 inhabitants[1] from the province of Asti in the Piemonte. It is located in the Langhe on the watershed between Bormida di Spigno and Bormida di Millesimo at Rio Rigosio. It is the most southern municipality of province of Asti. Furthermore it is the only municipality in the province to border with Liguria (province of Savona). With Bric Puschera (846 m) it reaches the highest elevation of province.

History of Serole

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Serole is mentioned for the first time in 991, in 1209 it is sold to the municipality of Asti by Oddone I who, however, maintains the investment. On February 3, 1300 Alberto del Carretto bought from the Marquis of Ponzone part of the mandamanto Spigno Monferrato of which Serole is also a member. After briefly becoming part of the Republic of Genoa, in 1147 he joined the Marchesato del Monferrato with Giovanni Giacomo Paleologo who obtains the investment from the Duke of Milan Francesco Sforza. In 1579 the family Asinari he obtained Serole with the investment from the King of Spain and Duke of Milan Philip II. Under the Treaty of Utrecht it passes to the Kingdom of Sardinia under the Savoy. Already in the province of Acqui Terme, in 1859 with the Rattazzi law it passed to province of Alessandria from which it was detached in 1934 to form the new province of Asti.

Symbols

The coat of arms and gonfalone were granted with DPR on 11 January 1980.[4]

«Stemma di rosso, a castle in natural closed, windowed, walled of black and merlato to the Ghibelline, founded on the mountain of green, loaded with five silver sheep in grazing; all surmounted by a pastoral place in gold pole, crossed by two ears of decussed silver. Exterior ornaments from Commune.[5]»

The gonfalone is a white drape.

Society

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Demographic evolution

Inhabitants registered[6]

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 11, 1985 9 June 1990 Mauro Ferro - Mayor [7]
9 June 1990 April 24, 1995 Mauro Ferro - Mayor [7]
April 24, 1995 June 14, 1999 Giuseppe Vinotto centre-left Mayor [7]
June 14, 1999 June 14, 2004 Giuseppe Vinotto civic list Mayor [7]
June 14, 2004 June 8, 2009 Silvestro Bontà civic list Mayor [7]
June 8, 2009 May 26, 2014 Giuseppe Vinotto civic list Mayor [7]
May 26, 2014 May 26, 2019 Lorena Avra Civic list Independents Mayor [7]
May 26, 2019 in office Lorena Avra Civic list Independents Mayor [7]

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. ^ Serole, up Heraldic office - Municipal files, Central State Archives. Retrieved 22 September 2026.
  5. ^ Piedmontese civic coat of arms, vol. II, Regional Council of Piemonte, 2016, p. 506, ISBN 978-88-96074-98-5.
  6. ^ Data taken from:
  7. ^ to b c d And f g h https://amministratori.interno.it/

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