Piazza Vittorio Alfieri
Arcaded public buildings of 1856 and 1869 frame three sides of this broad trapezoid, the course of Asti's Palio since 1988. Each September the bareback horse race is run here; the rest of the year the square is watched over by an 1862 statue of Vittorio Alfieri.
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