Piemont Tour 2019 / Neive

Neive, an Italian municipality with about 3500 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, is a member of the Association of the most beautiful places in Italy.

Neive has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age, about 5000 years ago.
The rulers changed in Neive des öfftern, Romans, Sarmatians, Longobards, Charlemagne, Hungarians, Saracens, Otto I of Saxony and many other nobles.

Maria Vittoria, last Countess of Neive, married the second son of the first King of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II. She was also Queen of Spain for a short time.
With the House of Savoy, Neive shared the destiny of the Kingdom until the Constitution of the Italian Republic.