The name is plain: it comes from the pines, and old sources call the place Pinetum. For centuries the village was Pino di Castelnuovo, after nearby Castelnuovo Don Bosco. The arms hold name and work together: a green pine on the middle hill of a three-peaked mount, embraced by a vine heavy with bunches, and under the shield the motto Fructus fert vitis implicata pino, the vine wound round the pine is the one that bears fruit.
The castle holds the hilltop, houses clinging around it: medieval, perhaps thirteenth century, and it has lost the great round tower that once marked it. The parish church of the Madonna del Carmine is neo-Gothic, raised in 1899 by Giuseppe Gallo where the old church stood, and beside it the Baroque bell tower in Vittone's manner, older than the church it serves. In the castle enclosure an oil mill survives: olives grew here from the early eighteenth century, as De Canis notes in his Coreografia astigiana.
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