Spigno Monferrato

Image:Spigno [Monferrato – Lago di San Lorenzo, circa 1930.jpg|thumb|left|The lake of S. Lorenzo]
Spigno Monferrato is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southwest of Alessandria.

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History

The land of Spigno was owned by the Count of Sales, an illegitimate brother of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy. It had previously been a fiefdom of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1730 he married morganatically to Anna Canalis di Cumiana, who was created the Marchioness of Spigno in her own right.