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Ceva

Ceva, the ancient Ceba, is a small Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
town in the province of Cuneo

Province of Cuneo

Cuneo is a province in the southwest of the Piedmont region of Italy. To the west it borders on the France R?gion in France of Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur ....
, region of Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,399 km? and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital is Turin. The main local dialect is Piedmontese....
, 49 km east of Cuneo

Cuneo

Cuneo is a city in Piedmont, northern Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the third largest of Italy?s provinces by area. It is located at the foot of the Maritime Alps, on the Stura di Demonte river where it emerges from the Valle Stura, and neighbours the comuni of Boves, Cervasca, Vignolo, Beinette, Peveragno, Castelletto Stura,...
. It lies on the right bank of the Tanaro

Tanaro River

The Tanaro , known as Tanarus in ancient times, is a 276 Kilometre-long river in north-western Italy. It rises in the Ligurian Alps, close to the border with France and is the most significant right-side tributary to the Po River in terms of length, size of drainage basin and Discharge ....
on a wedge of land between that river and the Cevetta stream.

he pre-Roman period the territory around Ceva was inhabited by the branch of the mountain Ligures

Ligures

The Ligures were an ancient people who gave their name to Liguria, which once stretched from Northern Italy into southern Gaul. According to Plutarch they called themselves Ambrones which means ?people of the water?....
known as Epanterii.

The upper Val Tanaro was Romanized

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
in the second century BCE and it is known that the area was organized around a municipium
Municipium

A municipium belonged to the second highest Social class of Ancient Rome cities, being inferior in status to the colonia . The first municipium was Tusculum....
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Ceva, the ancient Ceba, is a small Italian

Italy

Province of Cuneo

Cuneo is a province in the southwest of the Piedmont region of Italy. To the west it borders on the France R?gion in France of Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur ....
, region of Piedmont

Piedmont

Cuneo

Tanaro River

History

In the pre-Roman period the territory around Ceva was inhabited by the branch of the mountain Ligures

Ligures

Ancient Rome

Mombasiglio

Mombasiglio is a comune in the Province of Cuneo in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 80 km southeast of Turin and about 35 km east of Cuneo....
is also regarded as a candidate. In the first century CE Columella

Columella

Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella was a Roman Empire writer. After a career in the army , he took up farming. His De Re Rustica in twelve volumes has been completely preserved and forms our most important source on Roman agriculture, together with the works of Cato the Elder and Marcus Terentius Varro, both of which he occasionally cit...
referred to a particular breed of cattle raised here, and Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Natural History ....
praised its sheep’s milk cheese in his Natural History. The town is on the site of the old Roman road from Augusta Taurinorum via Pollentia

Pollentia

The ancient town of Pollentia on the left bank of the Tanaro River is known today as Pollenzo, a frazione of Bra in the Province of Cuneo, Piedmont....
to the coast and it is probable that there was a market here from which the cheese produced in the region was exported with Rome via the Ligurian ports of Vada Sabatia (the modern Vado Ligure

Vado Ligure

Vado Ligure, in antiquity Vado Sabatia, is a town in the province of Savona, Liguria, in northern Italy....
) and/or Albingaunum (Albenga).

In the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
it was a strong fortress defending the confines of Piedmont towards Liguria

Liguria

Liguria is a coastal Regions of Italy of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. Its capital is Genoa. It is a popular region with tourists for its beautiful beaches, picturesque little towns, and food....
, but the fortifications on the rock above the town were demolished in 1800 by the French

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, to whom it had been ceded in 1796.

Landmarks

The sixteenth-century Castello of the Marchesi Pallavicino stands in an area of green parkland between the Tanaro and the Cevetta and comprises two small palaces: the original, red palazzina rossa and the later, white palazzina bianca.

Ceva

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