Cherasco

Cherasco, a walled town in the province of Cuneo, North Italy, 37 miles SSE. of Turin by rail. Pop. 3341. In the middle ages Cherasco was one of the chief fortresses of North Italy, but its works were destroyed by the French in 1801. A peace was concluded here between Louis XIII. of France and the Duke of Savoy in 1631, and another between the Sardinian commissioners and Napoleon in 1796.