Dogliani () is a ''

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'' (municipality) in the

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in the

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region

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, located about southeast of

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and about northeast of

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. Dogliani borders the following municipalities: Belvedere Langhe, Bonvicino, Bossolasco, Cissone,

Farigliano Farigliano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italy, Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about northeast of Cuneo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,766 and an area of .All demo ...

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, Monchiero, Monforte d'Alba, Roddino, and Somano. Aside from local craftmanship, the economy is mostly based on agriculture: most of the area is occupied by

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s, used for the production of the

Dolcetto di Dogliani Dolcetto ( , , ) is a black Italian wine grape variety widely grown in the Piedmont (wine), Piedmont region of northwest Italy. The Italian word ''dolcetto'' means "little sweet one", but it is not certain that the name originally carried an ...

wine. There are also several woods of

common hazel ''Corylus avellana'', the common hazel, is a species of flowering plant in the birch family Betulaceae. The shrubs usually grow tall. The nut is round, in contrast to the longer filbert nut. Common hazel is native to Europe and Western Asia. Th ...

s. Dogliani is also known for it
Presepio Vivente
. A tradition started in 1975 that occurs yearly on the night of December 23 and 24 where the town's citizens enact the nativity scene.

History

The town was a settlement of the

Ligures The Ligures or Ligurians were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day Northern Italy, north-western Italy, is named. Because of the strong Celts, Celtic influences on their language and culture, they were also known in anti ...

, a pre-

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population. The Roman conquered its area around 200-100 B.C, although Dogliani is mentioned for the first time in the Middle Ages, as the place of a castle and a borough surrounded by walls along the Rea torrent. Dogliani was likely a fief of the

Aleramici The Aleramici were a Northern Italian noble and royal dynasty of Frankish origin which ruled various northwestern Italian territories in Piedmont and Liguria from the 10th to the 14th century, also reigning over the Kingdom of Jerusalem and th ...

family, and later was owned by the marquisses of Busca, those of Saluzzo and, starting from the early 17th century, by the

House of Savoy The House of Savoy (, ) is a royal house (formally a dynasty) of Franco-Italian origin that was established in 1003 in the historical region of Savoy, which was originally part of the Kingdom of Burgundy and now lies mostly within southeastern F ...

. In the 19th century, Dogliani received numerous new buildings designed by the eclectic architect

Giovanni Battista Schellino Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data * ''Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of ...

Main sights

*Parish church of Santi Quirico and Paolo (1869), designed by G.B. Schellino *Town Hall, built from 1460 but largely revised by Schellino in the 19th century. It has kept a nave and a portico from the Renaissance church of the Carmine *Church of the Confraternita dei Battuti (18th century) *Civic Hospital, another creation of Schellino *Church of St. Lawrence, originally (12th century) having a nave and two aisles. Later Schellino modified it in neo-Gothic style. *Church of Immacolata Concezione, another creation of Schellino *House-tower Perno di Caldera, of medieval origins *Neo-Gothic entrance to the cemetery, also designed by Schellino (1855 - 1867) *Porta Soprana, a medieval gate *Civic Tower (known from the 12th century)

Twin towns — sister cities

Dogliani is twinned with: *

Jarnac Jarnac (; ; Saintongese: ''Jharnat'') is a commune in the Charente department, southwestern France.Lautertal, Germany, since 2016

People

Michele Ferrero Michele Ferrero (; 26 April 1925 – 14 February 2015) was an Italian billionaire businessman. He owned the chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA, Europe's second-largest confectionery company (at the time of his death), which he developed from th ...

(1925-2015), owner of the

Ferrero SpA Ferrero International SpA ( , ), more commonly known as Ferrero Group or simply Ferrero, is an Italian multinational company with headquarters in Alba. Ferrero is a manufacturer of branded chocolate and confectionery products, and the second ...

chocolate manufacturers. *

(1818-1905), Italian architect responsible for designing eighteen buildings in Dogliani. *

Luigi Einaudi Luigi Numa Lorenzo Einaudi (; 24 March 1874 – 30 October 1961) was an Italian politician, economist and banker who served as President of Italy from 1948 to 1955 and is considered one of the founding fathers of the 1946 Italian institutional ...

(1874-1961), second President of the Italian Republic, intellectual, economist and founder o
Poderi Luigi Einaudi in Dogliani

References

External links

Official website
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