Vercelli is an Italian town, capital of the province of the same name, located in the eastern part of Piedmont.
City of art, it is located on the right bank of the Sesia river, and has always been an important agricultural and commercial center, specifically for the rice trade throughout Europe, which has earned it the nickname "European rice capital" , complete with an Experimental Rice Growing Station and the Rice Stock Exchange, the most important in Italy.
It is also said that Vercelli was born Meropoli, from the name of its founder, so large and fortified that it would have had extraordinary proportions such as to include Borgo Vercelli, extending on both sides of the Cesia (Sesia) on which 3 bridges were built.
The walls surrounding the city would have been 70 feet high and were interspersed with 300 towers for protection. Later and by order of King Beloisio the name of Meropoli changed to Vercelli.
Vercelli
Address: Piazza del Municipio 5 13100
Phone: 0161 5961
Site:
https://www.comune.vercelli.it/Location inserted by
Miriam Canonica