Alessandria

[ ah-les-sahn-dree-ah ]

noun

1. a city in NW Italy, in Piedmont.

Alessandria

/ alesˈsandrja /

noun

1. a town in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 85 438 (2001)

Example Sentences

After a state funeral on Wednesday, the coffin will be returned to Villa San Martino, near Milan, to await the cremation which will take place at the Valenziano Panta Rei Crematorium Temple, near the city of Alessandria.

From Reuters

The choir, from the northern Italian province of Alessandria, is led by two doctors, biologist Stefania Crivellari and onocologist Federica Grosso.

From Reuters

They sang at the beginning and the end of the audience and Grosso said they got good seats through the help of a nun from Alessandria who works with the group.

From Reuters

The Alessandria area has had a higher-than normal rate of mesothelioma, a type of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos in the past from a now-closed factory in the town of Casale Monferrato.

From Reuters

As O’Brien looks increasingly ready to rip his red hair out by the handful, Macdonald’s moth tells of his boss, “Gregory Olinivich,” “who knows he has power over me and that seems to bring him happiness”; his wife whom he doesn’t recognize anymore; his daughter “Alessandria” who “fell in the cold of last year”; his son “Gergaro Olininivinich” in whose eyes he only sees “the same cowardice that I catch when I take a glimpse of my own face in a mirror” — and so much more.

From Washington Post