Moncalvo was the first capital of the Monferrato: the marquis put his seat here. The title of city had come from the duke of Mantua, and Vittorio Amedeo III confirmed it in 1774; he then granted the town to his son Maurizio Giuseppe, who became its prince.
From the sixteenth century a sizeable Jewish community lived here: in 1731 there were a hundred and seventy-six of them among a little over fifteen hundred inhabitants. The ghetto, unlike almost all others, did not lie away from the main Catholic buildings but in a central area. A ballad of the late nineteenth century survives, "La Gran Battaja dj'Abrei d'Moncalv", written by a Christian townsman in Judaeo-Piedmontese; the community, in decline for centuries, died out after the war and the deportations of 1943.
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📅 Every year, on the third Sunday of May; October brings the Truffle Fair and the Medieval Festival
Moncalvo celebrates Saint Antoninus on the third Sunday of May; the town takes part in the Palio di Asti, a feast rooted in the Middle Ages, and hosts the Medieval Festival and the Truffle Fair in autumn, as well as the Fat Ox Fair in December and the Monferrato Cuisine Festival in June.
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