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Alessandria is a part of my trip to Genova. It was June 16, 2007. The distance from Torino is only one hour by (regional) train. Different from other cities in Italy that I visited until now, the downtown of Alessandria is not near station. I have to carefully look at the map to find it. Actually it was also possible by bus, but I did not want to do it. Although it is not near, to find the downtown is not difficult.

Alessandria is a small and silent city although it is known as the capital of Alessandria province. It was nice since when take a picture you will not get disturb by car for example. Not like in Milano that I almost be hit by tram when I took picture of Garibaldi statue. If you use regular way, you will find a market near the station. Next, you walk and you will find the cathedral of Alessandria. It is named as St. Peter (Pedro in Italy). The church has a tall tower that you can see it from all area in the city. The church is quite big with neo-classical style on it. Inside the church, there are some 'corpus' of blessed people.
Around 100 meter from the church, you can find the downtown in via Garibaldi where consists of very big parks and old buildings. The builidng with big clock is quite old and becomes landmark of this city, instead of the cathedral. There are many others churches and piazza or palazzo in this city, for example piazza della republika, church of Belssed marry. This city has many old people population probably more than the young ones. At that time, I spent 3 hours here, and I think I already visited all places that I have to visit in this city.