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Alice Castello is a ''
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces ('' province''). The can ...
'' (municipality) in the Province of Vercelli
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in the Italian
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region Piedmont
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, located about northeast of Turin
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and about west of Vercelli
Vercelli (; pms, Vërsèj ), is a city and ''comune'' of 46,552 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy. One of the oldest urban sites in northern Italy, it was founded, according to most historians, ...
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Alice is known since the 10th century AD. Located there are a castle (of which only few remains of the medieval structure have survived) and an 18th-century parish church dedicated to St. Nicholas.
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