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| Comune di Acqui Terme | |
 La Bollente spring. | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Piedmont |
| Province | Alessandria (AL) |
| Frazioni | Lussito, Ovrano, Moirano |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Lorenzo Lucchini ([[List of political parties in Italy|Five Star Movement]]) |
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33.42 km2 (12.90 sq mi) |
The Virgin of Montserrat, in the cathedral.
The cathedral. The loggia dates from the 17th century.
Acqui Terme is a city and comune in the province of Alessandria, Piedmont, northern Italy. It is about 35 kilometres (22 mi) south-southwest of Alessandria. It is one of the principal winemaking communes of the Italian DOCG wine Brachetto d'Acqui.[1]
The hot sulphur springs have been famous since this was the Roman town of Aquae Statiellae; the ancient baths are referred to by Paulus Diaconus and the chronicler Liutprand of Cremona.[2] In 1870 Giovanni Ceruti designed a little pavilion, known as La Bollente, for the spot at the centre of the town where the waters bubble up at 75 °C (167 °F).
History[]
In the Roman period the place was connected by road with Alba Pompeia and Augusta Taurinorum (Turin). The local Celto-Ligurian tribe of the Statielli never gave up to the romans, and their main center Carystum (Acqui Terme) were attacked in 173 BC by the legions led by the consul Marcus Popilius Laenas. The Statielli did not oppose the resistance, but in contravention of the Roman law of war, the console killed thousands of them and reduced the other gauls to slavery and began to organize the sale of slaves. Some of them were transferred to the north of the Po, but some of them survived free in small villages in the surrounding, still not romanized. In 2008 an important necropolis was find in Montabone.[3] The remains show that the Statielli conserved their own customs and traditions for all the first century B.C. and probably after. Anyway, a very important roman town was built over Carystum, known for the naturan thermal waters and spa. Based In the neighbourhood of the town, near the river Bormida, are the remains of the aqueduct which supplied it.[2]
In the 6th century it became part of the Lombard kingdom of northern Italy. Acqui was ruled by its bishop from 978, becoming an independent commune in 1135. In 1278 it was annexed to the Marquisate of Montferrat, to which it belonged until the acquisition by the Duchy of Savoy.
It was connected by a railway line to Genoa in 1892.
Main sights[]
- Acqui Cathedral: Romanesque edifice on the Latin cross plan, built in the late 10th century and consecrated in 1067 to Santa Maria Assunta by bishop Guido. The façade has a portal sculpted by Antonio Pilacorte, a late 15th-century rose window and a 17th-century portico. The Gothic-style bell tower is from 1479. The interior houses a late 15th-century triptych by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Bermejo, and a Baroque altar of Saint Guido.
- The Palaeologi Castle, mentioned for the first time in 1056. It was rebuilt in the 15th century by Marquis William VII of Montferrat.
- Church of the Addolorata: also called San Pietro dates to 7th-century. It was almost entirely rebuilt in the 10th-11th centuries in Romanesque style, and attached to a Benedictine abbey. It was again renovated in the 18th century, and returned to a neo-Romanesque appearance in the 1930s.
- Church of San Francesco: rebuilt in 19th-century, stands adjacent to 15th century cloister of the former Franciscan convent.
- Church of the Madonnalta
- Sant'Antonio Abate
- Church of Madonna della Nieve
- Roman Acqueduct, also called Roman Arches Site.
Twin towns — sister cities[]
Acqui Terme is twinned with:
Genoa, Italy- Argostoli, Greece
People[]
- Luigi Raimondi (born 1912), Apostolic Delegate to the United States, cardinal, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
- Giulietto Chiesa (born 1940), journalist and politician.
- Pierdomenico Baccalario (born 1974), writer.
- Giovanni Mollo, (Born 1983), Capitano di Lungo Corso e Comandante di Navi da Crociera
References[]
- ^ Bastianich, J.; Lynch, D. (2005). Vino Italiano. Crown Publishing. pp. 132, 153, 419. ISBN 1-4000-9774-6.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. "Acqui". Encyclopædia Britannica. 1. Cambridge University Press. p. 154.
- ^ Le Ceneri Degli Statielli - La necropoli della seconda età del Ferro di Montabone, ISBN 978-88-5503-117-2
External links[]
- Media related to Acqui Terme at Wikimedia Commons
- [http:// Official website]
- "Acqui". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
- Acquese Web Portal of tourism, typical products, health and wellness in Italian
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