What is "alessandria"

Alessandria ( Piedmontese: Lissandria) is a city and comune in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. The city is sited on the alluvial plain between the Tanaro and the Bormida rivers, about southeast of Turin.

Alessandria is also a major railway hub.

Alessandria may refer to three towns in Italy, and to various things related to them

• Alessandria, a town in Piedmont
  • U.S. Alessandria Calcio 1912, Alessandria's football club
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Alessandria della Paglia, the Roman Catholic diocese centred on Alessandria
  • The Province of Alessandria, the Italian province with Alessandria as its capital
• Alessandria del Carretto, a town in the province of Cosenza in Calabria.
• Alessandria della Rocca, a small agricultural town in Sicily
• Alessandria (meteorite), a meteorite which fell in 1860 near Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy