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Ceva, the ancient Ceba, is a small Italian town in the province of Cuneo, region of
The upper Val Tanaro was Romanized in the second century BC and it is known that the area was organized around a '' municipium''. However, it is not certain that this was Ceba: Mombasiglio is also regarded as a candidate. In the first century AD Columella referred to a particular breed of cattle raised here, and
at Perseus
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Piedmont
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, east of Cuneo
Cuneo (; pms, Coni ; oc, Coni/Couni ; french: Coni ) is a city and '' comune'' in Piedmont, Northern Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the fourth largest of Italy’s provinces by area.
It is located at 550 metres (1,804 ft) ...
. It lies on the right bank of the Tanaro on a wedge of land between that river and the Cevetta stream.
History
In the pre-Roman period the territory around Ceva was inhabited by the branch of the mountain Ligures known as Epanterii.
The upper Val Tanaro was Romanized in the second century BC and it is known that the area was organized around a '' municipium''. However, it is not certain that this was Ceba: Mombasiglio is also regarded as a candidate. In the first century AD Columella referred to a particular breed of cattle raised here, and Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic ...
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 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) and/or Albingaunum
Albenga ( lij, Arbenga; la, Albingaunum) is a city and ''comune'' situated on the Gulf of Genoa on the Italian Riviera in the Province of Savona in Liguria, northern Italy. Albenga has the nickname of ''city of a hundred spires''. The economy is ...
(Albenga).
In the Middle Ages
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it was the seat of a small marquisate, which lasted until the late 15th century when it was acquired by Savoy
Savoy (; frp, Savouè ; french: Savoie ) is a cultural-historical region in the Western Alps.
Situated on the cultural boundary between Occitania and Piedmont, the area extends from Lake Geneva in the north to the Dauphiné in the south.
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. Ceva was home to a fortress defending the confines of Piedmont towards Liguria
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, but the fortifications on the rock above the town were demolished in 1800 by the French
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, to whom it had been ceded in 1796.
Ceva was heavily damaged by a flood of the Tanaro, Cevetta and Bovina rivers.
Main sights
The 16th century castle of the 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''. Remains of the 16th century fort are also present. TheDuomo of Ceva
''Duomo'' (, ) is an Italian term for a church with the features of, or having been built to serve as, a cathedral, whether or not it currently plays this role. Monza Cathedral, for example, has never been a diocesan seat and is by definition not ...
, also known as the Collegiata dell'Assunzione della Beata Vergine Maria, was completed in 1605.
Twin towns — sister cities
Ceva istwinned
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* In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so;
* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
* Twinning inst ...
with:
* Le Val, France (1992)
See also
*Marquisate of Ceva
The Marquisate of Ceva was a small independent state in north-western Italy, situated at the foot of the Apennines, with its seat at Ceva, in what is now a part of Piedmont.
Establishment
The marquisate was created in 1125 at the death of Bonifac ...
* Ceva Grimaldi family
* Aloysius Bertrand
Notes
External links
* * Pliny on the cheese of Ceba in Book 11 of the ''Natural History'': *at Perseus
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