Pontestura

Infobox CityIT
official_name = Comune di Pontestura
img_coa = Pontestura-Stemma.png img_coa_small =
region = RegioneIT|sigla=PMN
province = ProvinciaIT|sigla=AL (AL)
mayor = Ermanno Ricci
(elected June 13, 2004)
mayor_party =
elevation_footnotes =
elevation_m = 140
area_footnotes =
area_total_km2 = 18.87
population_footnotes =Population statistics from Italian statistical institute Istat.]
population_as_of = 2005
population_total = 1519
pop_density_footnotes =
population_density_km2 = 80.5
coordinates = coord|45|8|36|N|8|20|3|E|region:IT_type:city(1519)
gentilic = UCFIRST:pontesturesi
telephone = 0142
postalcode = 15027
frazioni = Quarti, Castagnone, Rocchetta
saint = Saint Agatha
day = 5 February
mapx = #expr:45 + 8 / 60.0
mapy = #expr:8 + 20 / 60.0
locator_position =
native_name = Pontestura
name = Pontestura


website = Pontestura (in Piedmontese "Pont da Stura") is a "commune" with a population of 1,539 in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont. It is located on the right bank of the Po River about 50 km east of Turin and about 10 km west of Casale Monferrato and borders the following municipalities: Camino, Casale Monferrato, Cereseto, Coniolo, Morano sul Po, Ozzano Monferrato, Serralunga di Crea, and Solonghello.

John IV, Marquis of Montferrat from 1445 to 1464, was born in the castle of Pontestura in 1413.

Demographic evolution

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