San Salvatore Monferrato

San Salvatore Monferrato is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about east of Turin and about northwest of Alessandria.

Main sights

The tower of the Paleologi was erected for Theodore II, Marquess of Montferrat.

Other sights include the 16th century churches of San Martino e San Siro. the communal cemetery of the town is home to the grave of Paolo Provera, surnamed Tantasà, an example of outsider art.

People

• Iginio Ugo Tarchetti (1839–1869), a novelist, also poet and journalist, and part of the Milanese Scapigliatura.
• Paolo Provera (Tantasà) (1850–1930), an outsider artist.

Eugenio "Gene" Guglielmi (1947–), a beat folksinger.

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