Buttigliera d’Asti has over 2,600 inhabitants and is located 29 km from Turin.
In 1263, the Municipality of Asti took the Castle of Mercuriolo from the Biandrate family and established a settlement called “Butiglaria” near the castle.
Places of Interest
The Romanesque Church of S. Martino, located in the cemetery and documented since 1034, is the ancient parish church of the village of Mercuriolo. Its façade is from the 19th century, in a style imitating Romanesque, but inside, there are still traces of fifteenth-century frescoes.
The parish church of S. Biagio (first half of the 18th century), the Church of the Confraternity of S. Michele (1578), designed by the famous Turin architect Bernardo Antonio Vittone, and the 18th-century Palazzo dei Conti Frejlino di Buttigliera, which in the 18th century boasted one of the most important botanical gardens in Piedmont.