Volpeglino Explained

Volpeglino
Official Name:Comune di Volpeglino
Coordinates:44.8833°N 65°W
Region:Piedmont
Province:Alessandria (AL)
Mayor:Giuseppe Brivio
Area Total Km2:3.2
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:140
Population As Of:30 November 2017
Population Demonym:Volpeglinesi
Elevation M:243
Postal Code:15050
Area Code:0131

Volpeglino is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 100km (100miles) east of Turin and about 25km (16miles) east of Alessandria.

Volpeglino borders the following municipalities: Berzano di Tortona, Casalnoceto, Castellar Guidobono, Monleale, Viguzzolo, and Volpedo.

History

Was an ancient monastic cell owned by the Bobbio Abbey, already in the list of courts of the Bobbio monastery at the time of Charlemagne and Abbot Wala, with the toponyms of Vulpiclinum, Vulpiclinus, Vulpiclini or Vulpidino between 834 and 836, derived from the Latin vulpicula, place of foxes. The cell is included in the monastic court of Casasco. A fief of the Guidobono family in the 12th century, it entered the Tortonese orbit. A free commune in 1245, it came under the Visconti, who granted it as a fief to the Guidobono Cavalchini.

Volpeglino was aggregated with the municipality of Volpedo in 1928; it was detached from it again in 1947.

References

Notes and References

  1. All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.