Camagna Monferrato is a municipality in the Province of Alessandria of Langobards (Lombards) origins, with a characteristic concentric shape, built around a once imposing castle, transformed into a dwelling in the 18th century by the last feudal lords. At the end of the 19th century, following the population explosion that the territory experienced, with the opening of new connections such as the tramway, to make room for the increased population, the parish priest decided to enlarge the main church, dedicated to S. Eusebio di Vercelli (Sardinia, 283 - Vercelli, 1st August 371), entrusting the work to the engineer Crescentino Caselli, a major representative of the school of the architect Alessandro Antonelli, author of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin: it was Caselli who created the majestic circular dome that characterises the municipality, giving it a unique profile in the Monferrato landscape. In the first half of the 20th century, the municipality of Camagna Monferrato was the birthplace of several illustrious fellow citizens who have risen to the pages of history for their sacrifice in the tragic events of the Second World War and the defeat of fascism, such as the brothers Vitale and Eusebio Giambone, the former who fell in the International Brigades in Huesca, Spain, in 1937 and the latter who was awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valour and died in Turin in 1944. The house where these two brothers were born is preserved and has become the Museum of the Resistance. In 2014, the municipal territory was included by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in the Italian site no. 50 called The Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato, according to the criteria: (iii), thus being able to provide a unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation, in this case peasant, and (v), thus being an eminent example of human interaction with the environment. In the municipality, in particular, one can visit the infernot (from the ancient Provençal 'enfernet', meaning a kind of small, cramped room), the peculiar underground structures that are unique in the world for the type of marl from which they are dug and for the ideal microclimate for the preservation of wine, the production of which dates back to ancient history.
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Camagna Monferrato is a municipality in the Province of Alessandria of Langobards (Lombards) origins, with a characteristic concentric shape, built around a once imposing castle, transformed into a dwelling in the 18th century by the last feudal lords. At the end of the 19th century, following the population explosion that the territory experienced, with the opening of new connections such as the tramway, to make room for the increased population, the parish priest decided to enlarge the main church, dedicated to S. Eusebio di Vercelli (Sardinia, 283 - Vercelli, 1st August 371), entrusting the work to the engineer Crescentino Caselli, a major representative of the school of the architect Alessandro Antonelli, author of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin: it was Caselli who created the majestic circular dome that characterises the municipality, giving it a unique profile in the Monferrato landscape. In the first half of the 20th century, the municipality of Camagna Monferrato was the birthplace of several illustrious fellow citizens who have risen to the pages of history for their sacrifice in the tragic events of the Second World War and the defeat of fascism, such as the brothers Vitale and Eusebio Giambone, the former who fell in the International Brigades in Huesca, Spain, in 1937 and the latter who was awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valour and died in Turin in 1944. The house where these two brothers were born is preserved and has become the Museum of the Resistance. In 2014, the municipal territory was included by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in the Italian site no. 50 called The Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato, according to the criteria: (iii), thus being able to provide a unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation, in this case peasant, and (v), thus being an eminent example of human interaction with the environment. In the municipality, in particular, one can visit the infernot (from the ancient Provençal 'enfernet', meaning a kind of small, cramped room), the peculiar underground structures that are unique in the world for the type of marl from which they are dug and for the ideal microclimate for the preservation of wine, the production of which dates back to ancient history.
