Ostelli di Alessandria Hostel
The Youth Hostel is located in an ancient building in the heart of the town. Over the Tanaro river there is still the fortified city of XVIII Century, with a star-shaped plant expanded in 1859. In the town it is also possible to admire several examples of Baroque style ...
Alessandria (Lissandria in Piedmontese) is a city in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. The city is sited on the river Tanaro, 55 miles southeast of Turin. Alessandria was the first capital of an Italian province to be governed by a Socialist: the clockmaker Paolo Sacco was elected sindaco. July 25, 1899. Alessandria was a tactical military target during World War II and was subjected to intense Allied bombing, the most serious being the raids of April 30, 1944, with 238 dead and hundreds wounded, and April 5, 1945, with 160 deaths, among them 60 children from the children's asylum in Via Gagliaudo (when the town had already been freed by the partisans). On November 6, 1994 the Tanaro flooded a good part of the city, causing major damage, especially in the Orti quarter.
