Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan faduwar Daular Yammacin Turai, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Byzantines, Lombards, Franks, Hungarians da Saracens sun yi wa birnin fashi sau da yawa. A cikin karni na 11 ya zama 'yanci kyauta (ko birni-jihar) kuma memba ne na Lombard League. Montferrat da Visconti sun yi yaƙi da garin; daga baya ya zama mallakar Gonzaga. Charles Emmanuel I na Savoy ya ci shi sau biyu, yayin da daga baya Faransa da Spain suka yi yaƙi don mallakar ta. Yarjejeniyar Cherasco
(1631) ya sanya Alba gaba ɗaya ga Savoy. A lokacin Yaƙe-yaƙe na Napoleon, ya kasance wani ɓangare na Jamhuriyar Alba (1796) da Jamhuriyar Subalpine, duka abokan cinikin Faransa, kafin a haɗa su da Daular Faransa a 1802. Ya kasance cibiyar arrondissement a farkon sashen Tanaro tsakanin 1802-1805, daga baya a Stura daya tsakanin 1805-1814 kafin 'yancin da sojojin Austriya suka yi. An mayar da shi zuwa Masarautar Sardinia (sunan Duchy na Savoy bayan samun Sardinia a 1720) a 1814.