The name of Gamalero runs through a chain of uncertain forms, from Scamilaria to Gamelerium; the likeliest explanation points to the idea of a hump, and the ground agrees: the village sits on two close hills. The first firm mention is a diploma of Otto I of Saxony from 967, confirming fiefs in the county of Acqui to Aleramo of Monferrato.
The chronicles say little about Gamalero, and that silence describes a poor place of scattered farmsteads between La Rocca and San Lorenzo. In 1802 the lord sold the castle to two landowning farmers, who took it apart for its stone; on the town arms a castle remains, the one called Castelmerlino.
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📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August, the day of San Lorenzo (Saint Lawrence), Gamalero, a municipality of 847 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron with the sagra dell'agnolotto al sugo di cinghiale (agnolotti with wild boar sauce festival).
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Outside Gamalero, but an easy day trip away.
