Lerma, Piedmont
# Lerma, Piedmont

Lerma is a comune (municipality) of approx. 849 inhabitants, in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region of Piedmont, about 90 kilometres (56 mi) southeast of Turin and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Alessandria.

It borders the municipalities of Bosio, Casaleggio Boiro, Castelletto d'Orba, Montaldeo, Silvano d'Orba and Tagliolo Monferrato.

## History

property of the marquises of Morbello, it passed to Genoa in 1233 ad as a fief to the Malaspina family. Feud of the Cassano Doria, under the lordship of the Montferrat pass briefly to Genoa, and then definitively to the House of Spinola. In 1691, on the death of Luca Spinola, the fiefdom passed to his daughter Maria Vittoria, wife of the Marquises Francesco Grillo. In 1708 Lerma became part of the Savoy possessions.

