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21-693: Paesana borders the following municipalities: Barge , Oncino , Ostana , Sampeyre , and Sanfront . This article on a location in the Province of Cuneo is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Barge, Italy Barge is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont , located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) southwest of Turin and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northwest of Cuneo . The population numbered 7,589 as of 30 November 2019. Barge borders

42-423: A Roman market settlement called Forum Vibii Cabur. The first document mentioning the name of Barge dates back to 1001, an imperial diploma of Otto III . However, the large First Romanesque bell tower of the church of San Giovanni Battista demonstrates that the village was a centre of some importance already in the first quarter of the 11th century (being the largest parish bell tower in a very large area). Barge

63-732: A precious fourteenth-century wooden crucifix. To the left of the main altar is the Chapel of the SS. Sacramento, with a polyptych by the Flemish artist of French origin Hans Clemer , better known as Maestro d'Elva. The Marquisate of Saluzzo was the seat of a Piedmontese principality whose history is closely linked to that of its powerful neighbor, the House of Savoy , until its definitive incorporation obtained in 1601 by Duke Charles Emmanuel . The French name of Saluces

84-625: A vast area of 7,659 ha (18,930 acres) in the Po Valley , about 35 km (22 mi) east of Mount Viso . The Cathedral of Saluzzo  [ it ] , also known as the Cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin Mary of the Assumption, stands out for its Late-Gothic forms; built outside the walls just beyond Porta Santa Maria between 1491 and 1501, it was a bishop's seat starting from 1511. The façade

105-481: Is in exposed brick, adorned by three portals surmounted by terracotta gables that house statues of the apostles (central portal), while above the side there are the patron San Chiaffredo and San Costanzo. The interior has a covering made up of cross vaults, while the Baroque high altar with its large impact is of great impact eleven wooden statues by Carlo Giuseppe Plura and collaborators. In the central nave, you can admire

126-554: The Battle of Staffarda , moved against Barge, devastating the territory and plundering the town. A relative period of peace in the eighteenth century helped to heal the wounds of the past decades. Barge was a centre for the production of firearms from the 14th century until the 18th century, an industry started by the Thorosano family. Another local industry was the quartzite mine of Mombracco, mentioned by Leonardo da Vinci. In September 1943,

147-573: The Taurini . In Roman times it was a pagus (small village) belonging to the main settlement located by the Rocca di Cavour , a huge isolated mass of granite rising from the nearby town of Cavour . This settlement is mentioned by Pliny as the second most important in the Taurine lands, after Segusia ( Susa ). At the foot of the rocca (6 km from the current centre of Barge) the proconsul Gaius Vibius Pansa founded

168-512: The province of Cuneo , in the Piedmont region, Italy . The city of Saluzzo is built on a hill overlooking a vast, well-cultivated plain. Iron, lead, silver, marble, slate etc. are found in the surrounding mountains. On 1 January 2017 it had a population of 17.581 Saluzzo was the birthplace of the writer Silvio Pellico and of typographer Giambattista Bodoni . Saluzzo (Salusse in Piedmontese )

189-527: The Ghiandone, which joins the river Po near Staffarda. Barge lies about 360-390 metres above sea level. The name Barge is thought to derive from the ancient word 'barga', whose meaning is debated. According to one view, it means "shelter" or "hut". Others maintain it is to be linked to the ancient root *berg-/*barg-/*breg-/*brig- with the meaning of "elevated ground/mountain". In the south of France, localities with names such as Barge/La Barge/Barges/Bargettes lie at

210-522: The base of the House of Savoy 's claims over the increasingly feebler marquises' territories. Thomas III , a vassal of France, wrote the romance Le chevalier errant ('the knight-errant'). Ludovico I (1416–75) started the Golden Age of the city and imposed himself as a mediator between the neighbouring powers. Ludovico II constructed a tunnel , no longer in use, through the Monviso , a remarkable work for

231-402: The covered marketplace. The principal historic religious buildings include: Examples of historic military architecture are: This article on a location in the Province of Cuneo is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Saluzzo Saluzzo ( Italian: [saˈluttso] ; Piedmontese : Salusse [saˈlyse] ) is a town and former principality in

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252-627: The first partisan formation in Northern Italy was founded in Barge. Barge has a small but attractive historic centre with a warren of narrow streets, abutted by the fast-flowing Chiappera and Infernotto streams and overlooked by the ruins of the Castello Inferiore, with the green foothills of the Cottian Alps beyond. The streets are lined with small shops and cafés, and a weekly market takes place in

273-459: The following municipalities: Bagnolo Piemonte , Cardè , Cavour , Envie , Ostana , Paesana , Revello , Sanfront , and Villafranca Piemonte . The town is situated at the foot of the Cottian Alps , near Monviso and more precisely, in a basin at the foot of Mount Bracco and Mount Medìa. The inhabited centre is crossed by two streams (Chiappera and Infernotto), which join to form a third one,

294-569: The foot of a mountain. The same applies to the Spanish toponym Vargas. The name of the Tuscan town of Barga may derive from the same root. Rock engravings at the top of Mount Bracco and Mount Medìa attest to the area having been populated in prehistoric times, but little is known about their creators. Barge is situated in an area which, in the pre- Roman age, belonged to the Celtic-Ligurian culture of

315-491: The important castle, and leaving destruction and misery in their wake, culminating with an epidemic of the plague in 1630, which left the region depopulated. In that year Charles Emmanuel I incorporated the town into the province of Saluzzo , detaching it from that of Pinerolo . At the end of the 18th century, the town was involved in the war between Piedmont and France: in 1690, the French marshal Catinat , after his victory at

336-544: The keys of the house" of Italy. The Marquisate of Saluzzo is the setting of Boccaccio's tale of Griselda , the final story in the Decameron , as well as Chaucer's Clerk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales . The municipality of Saluzzo absorbed at the beginning of 2019 the neighbouring commune of Castellar , thus enforcing the results of a referendum held in the summer of 2018. The municipality of Saluces occupies

357-649: The marquisate of Saluzzo from 1142 to 1548. The marquisate embraced the territory lying between the Alps, the Po and the Stura, and was extended on several occasions. In the Middle Ages it had a chequered existence, often being in conflict with powerful neighbours, chiefly the Counts (later Dukes) of Savoy. After Manfred II 's death, his widow had to accept a series of tributes, which were to be later

378-468: The rule and impoverished the state. After long struggles for independence, the marquisate was occupied (1548) by the French, as a fief of the Crown of France – with the name of Saluces – and remained part of that kingdom until it was ceded to Savoy in 1601. In 1588 Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy took possession of the city. Thenceforward Saluzzo shared the destinies of Piedmont, with which it formed "one of

399-477: The time. With the help of the French he resisted a vigorous siege by the Duke of Savoy in 1486, but in 1487 yielded and retired to France where he wrote L'art de la chevalerie sous Vegèce ("The art of chivalry under Vegetius", 1488), a treatise on good government, and other works on military affairs. He was a patron of clerics and authors. In 1490 Ludovico regained power, but after his death, his sons struggled longly for

420-771: Was a civitas (tribal city state) of the Vagienni, or mountain Ligures , and later of the Salluvii . This district was brought under Roman control by the Consul Marcus Fulvius c.  125 BC . In the Carolingian age it became the residence of a count ; later, having passed to the Marquesses of Susa , Manfred I , son of Marquess Bonifacio del Vasto, on the division of that principality became Marquess of Saluzzo; this family held

441-544: Was part of Turin 's lands. Between the 11th and 13th centuries, it was under the rule of a lordly consortium, called "Dei Signori di Barge", who swore allegiance at the same time to both the House of Savoy and the Marquises of Saluzzo . In 1363, Barge was plundered and pillaged, and passed definitively into Savoy hands. From the middle of the 16th century, the area suffered from frequent wars, with Spanish , French and Piedmontese armies passing through, aiming to control

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