ALESSANDRIA PROVINCE, PIEDMONT REGION

The province of Alessandria is the third largest in the northern Italian region of Piedmont and covers an area of 3,560 sq.km. It is bordered to the north by the province of Vercelli, to the west by the provinces of Torino and Asti, to the south by the region of Liguria and to the east by the region of Lombardy. In the far south east of the region it also borders a short stretch of the region of Emilia-Romagna.