NW Italy
Piedmont
Province of Alessandria

Alessandria

Alessandria is the largest city and the capital of the province of Alessandria in . It's famous as the birthplace of the Italian medievalist writer Umberto Eco.
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  • Type: City with 91,000 residents
  • Description: Italian city and commune in Piedmont
  • Also known as: “Alexandria”, “Lisàndria”, “Lisondria”, “Lisòndria”, “Lissandria”, “Lissàndria”, and “Lissändria”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Alessandria railway station and Alessandria Cathedral.

Railway station
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serves the city and comune of Alessandria, in the region, . Opened in 1850, it forms part of the Turin–Genoa railway, and is also a junction for six other lines, to Chivasso, Piacenza, Novara, Pavia, Cavallermaggiore, Ovada and San Giuseppe di Cairo.

Church
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is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Alessandria, , , dedicated to Saints Peter and Mark. It is the seat of the Bishop of Alessandria.

Aerodrome
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is an aerodrome.

Alessandria

Latitude
44.913° or 44° 54′ 47″ north
Longitude
8.6155° or 8° 36′ 56″ east
Population
91,000
Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)
IATA airport code
QAL
United Nations Location Code
IT ALE
Open location code
8FPCWJ78+65
Open­Street­Map ID
node 63621601
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3183299
Wiki­data ID
Q6088
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Alessandria” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Alessandria”
  • Arabic: “ألساندريا”
  • Arabic: “أليساندريا”
  • Arabic: “الساندريا”
  • Arabic: “اليساندريا”
  • Aragonese: “Alessandria”
  • Armenian: “Ալեսանդրիա”
  • Asturian: “Alessandria”
  • Azerbaijani: “Alessandriya”
  • Basque: “Alessandria”
  • Belarusian: “Алесандрыя”
  • Bengali: “আলেসান্দ্রিয়া”
  • Breton: “Alessandria”
  • Bulgarian: “Алесандрия”
  • Catalan: “Alessandria”
  • Catalan: “Alexandria, Itàlia”
  • Catalan: “Alexandria”
  • Cebuano: “Alessandria”
  • Chechen: “Алессандри”
  • Chinese: “Alessandria”
  • Chinese: “亚历山德里亚”
  • Chinese: “亞歷山德里亞”
  • Corsican: “Alissandria”
  • Corsican: “Lisandria”
  • Croatian: “Alessandria”
  • Czech: “Alessandria”
  • Danish: “Alessandria”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Alesandriya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Alessandria”
  • Dutch: “Alessandria”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الساندريا”
  • Esperanto: “Alessandria”
  • Esperanto: “Lissändria”
  • Estonian: “Alessandria”
  • Faroese: “Alessandria”
  • Finnish: “Alessandria”
  • French: “Alessandria”
  • French: “Alexandrie”
  • French: “Lissàndria”
  • French: “Lissändria”
  • Galician: “Alessandria”
  • Galician: “Alexandría”
  • Georgian: “ალესანდრია”
  • German: “Alessandria”
  • German: “Lissändria”
  • Greek: “Αλεσσάντρια”
  • Gujarati: “એલેસાન્ડ્રિયા”
  • Hebrew: “אלסנדריה”
  • Hindi: “अलेस्सान्द्रिया”
  • Hungarian: “Alessandria”
  • Icelandic: “Alessandria”
  • Indonesian: “Alessandria”
  • Interlingua: “Alessandria”
  • Irish: “Alessandria”
  • Italian: “Alessandria”
  • Japanese: “アレッサンドリア”
  • Japanese: “アレッサンドリア県”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲಸ್ಸಾಂದ್ರಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲೆಸ್ಸಾಂಡ್ರಿಯ”
  • Korean: “알레산드리아”
  • Kotava: “Alessandria”
  • Kurdish: “Alessandria”
  • Ladin: “Alessandria”
  • Latin: “Alexandria a Palea”
  • Latin: “Alexandria Statelliorum”
  • Latin: “Alexandria Statiella”
  • Latin: “Alexandria Statiellorum”
  • Latin: “Alexandria”
  • Latvian: “Alesandrija”
  • Ligurian: “Lisciandria”
  • Lithuanian: “Alesandrija”
  • Lombard: “Lissandria”
  • Luxembourgish: “Alessandria”
  • Malay: “Alessandria”
  • Marathi: “अॅलेसेंड्रिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alessandria”
  • Moksha: “Алэссандрия”
  • Neapolitan: “Alessandria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alessandria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alessandria”
  • Norwegian: “Alessandria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Alexàndria”
  • Ossetian: “Алессандри”
  • Papiamento: “Alessandria”
  • Persian: “آلساندریا”
  • Piemontese: “Lisändria”
  • Piemontese: “Lissandria”
  • Piemontese: “Lissàndria”
  • Piemontese: “Lissändria”
  • Polish: “Alessandria”
  • Portuguese: “Alexandria”
  • Quechua: “Alessandria”
  • Romanian: “Alessandria”
  • Romanian: “Lissändria”
  • Russian: “Алессандрия”
  • Sanskrit: “आलेसांद्रिया”
  • Sardinian: “Alessandria”
  • Sardinian: “Lisàndria”
  • Scots: “Alessandria”
  • Serbian: “Алесандрија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alessandria”
  • Sicilian: “Alissandria”
  • Silesian: “Alessandria”
  • Sinhala: “ඇලෙස්සැන්ඩ්‍රියා”
  • Slovak: “Alessandria”
  • Slovenian: “Alessandria, Italija”
  • Slovenian: “Alessandria”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلساندریا”
  • Spanish: “Alejandría”
  • Spanish: “Alessandria”
  • Swahili: “Alessandria”
  • Swedish: “Alessandria”
  • Tagalog: “Alessandria”
  • Tamil: “அலெசாண்ட்ரியா”
  • Tatar: “Алессандрия”
  • Telugu: “అలెస్సాండ్రియా”
  • Thai: “อาเลสซันเดรีย”
  • Turkish: “Alessandria”
  • Ukrainian: “Алессандрія”
  • Urdu: “الساندریا”
  • Urdu: “الیساندریا”
  • Uzbek: “Alessandria”
  • Venetian: “Ałesandria”
  • Vietnamese: “Alessandria”
  • Volapük: “Alessandria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alessandria”
  • Welsh: “Alessandria”
  • Western Panjabi: “الیسانڈریا”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚历山德里亚 (意大利)”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚历山德里亚（意大利）”
  • “Alessandria”

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