Asti
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Location
Piedmont

Country
Italy

Year of Research
1526

Culture
  • Asti is the city which is located near the plain of Tanaro River and it is land of 75,000 inhabitants present in to the Piedmont region of the north-western Italy, about 55 kilometers east of Turin

  • It is the capital of the province of Asti.Since the Neolithic period People have lived in and around what is now Asti.

  • > During the wars between Charles V and Francis I of France the Situation has changed in the early 16th century.

  • Asti remained directly under the French Crown and at the beginning it was under the Valois rule.

  • it was besieged in vain by Charles condottiero Fabrizio Maramaldo, in 1526.Indeed, the Treaty of Cambrai assigned Asti to the German emperor, who in turn gave it to the viceroy of Naples Charles de Lannoy ,Three years later

  • Charles included it in Beatrice of Portugals dowry, After the death of the latter. When she got married with Charles III of Savoy, Asti became part of the Savoy dominion. When she got married with Charles III of Savoy, Asti became part of the Savoy dominion.