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How to get there: Highway A6 Genova-Alessandria, exit Ovada and follow up State route till Casaleggio Boiro.
First official information about this town date back to 1033, when Marquis Adalberto and his wife Adelasia gave the tenth part of their fortune as a donation, mean while the Monastery consecrated to S.Maria di Castiglione was building.
The donation consisted in Casadego and Lavagnola, today well-known as Casaleggio Boiro and Lavagnina.
Such as the majority of the nearest communes also Casaleggio Boiro has been battlefield of bloody clashes, to take possession of the town.
It was domain of Orbetenghi Parodi family that exerted their power from the castle: afterwards, in 1164, it passed to the command of Marquis of Monferrato, Guglielmo il Vecchio, following the instructions of Federico I.
In 1435, Casaleggio Boiro, after the domination of Francesco Sforza, becomes domain of the powerful Spinola family which administrated it till 1705 when Savoia family took control of the feud.
The castle, today still visible, stands on a rise in the shape of a spire and it gives great fascination to the whole village.
Who watch the stronghold receives an impression of high and stateliness really outstanding compared with its real dimension.
The peculiarity of its perspective dilatation of the shapes made it excellent, during the making of the movie “The Betrothed”, as the best set for the “Castle of the Innominato”.
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