San Sebastiano Curone ( Piedmontese : San Bastiau Curou ) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont , located about 110 kilometres (68 mi) southeast of Turin and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Alessandria , at the confluence of the Curone and Museglia streams.
4-542: San Sebastiano Curone borders the municipalities of Brignano-Frascata , Dernice , Gremiasco , and Montacuto . Part of the commune of Fabbrica Curone it was under the dominations of the Malaspina and Fieschi from Genoa . In the 16th century, under the Doria , it became an important market centre for salt, fish and cereals. It is the birthplace of Felice Giani , a neo-classicist painter. This article on
8-627: A location in the Province of Alessandria is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Brignano-Frascata Brignano-Frascata is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont , located about 110 kilometres (68 mi) east of Turin and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Alessandria . Discoveries in Serra del Monte indicate
12-721: The area was frequented in the Neolithic period. After the Lombard period, the municipal territory of Brignano-Frascata was under the control of Bobbio Abbey , which added it to the monastic court of Casasco . Later, during the High Middle Ages , the area was under the jurisdiction of the bishops of Tortona from 1157. In 1375, it became a fief of the Duke of Milan , granted to the Genoese Spinola family . On
16-473: The morning of June 1, 1478, Napoleone and Giovanni Antonio Spinola attacked their brother Battista and his family in the castle of Brignano. Battista and his three sons were killed in the attack, and one of his daughters died shortly after from her injuries. As a result of the confiscation of the assassins' assets, the fief passed to Battista's son-in-law Enrico Bigurra, who sold it in 1485 to Cavalchino Guidobono for 13,500 imperial lira . From 1685 to around 1800
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