Mondovi

Mondovì was a hill town of southern Piedmont, founded as a commune on Monte Regale in 1198. In 1337 it was held in the name of Robert of Anjou, king of Naples.

After frequent changes of lordship, the House of Savoy held Mondovì from 1418. Piedmont’s first printing press opened there in 1472. French occupation began in 1537 and ended in 1559; Emmanuel Philibert restored the town to Savoy in 1560, the year Piedmont’s first university was established.