A municipality on the plains with very ancient origins: the Bagienni people already lived here, then exterminated by the Romans, who assigned the site to the nobleman Plotius, who gave the town its name.
Like many other small towns in the area, it came under the dominion of many different noble families, including the Marquises of Saluzzo: the Statutes with which the citizens, together with the feudal lord Giovanni Galeazzo, established the rights and duties of the community date back to 1425. The Saluzzo family held the lordship until 1493, when they ceded it to Bernardino Govone, squire of Prince Filippo of Savoy, only to take it over again and pass it on to one of their vassals in 1638.
Unfortunately, many historical traces have been lost due to a fire set by German troops during the Second World War, whose flames devastated a large part of the town, destroying the town hall with the municipal historical archives and part of the castle, built towards the end of the 14th century by the Saluzzo family and then used as a noble residence.
In the town we find some examples of interesting religious architecture, in particular the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, from the 11th century, and the Parish Church of Santo Stefano, the town's main religious building.
Piozzo is known, not only in the surrounding area, for its beer production, in fact the artisanal brewery Le Baladin was born here, and for the pumpkin, a vegetable to which we owe the nickname of the local inhabitants once called Lapacusse, for their habit of drinking noisily (lappare) from a bottle-shaped pumpkin (cossa) full of wine that they always carried on their side while working in the fields.
After years of parochial fights, the Piozzesi decided to turn the situation in their favour by dedicating to this vegetable the Regional Pumpkin Fair, which is repeated every year and attracts numerous tourists from all over Italy, attracted above all by the tranquillity and healthiness of the place, by the natural beauty that surrounds it and, last but not least, by the food and wine delicacies that this territory offers.
Credit image: ProLoco Piozzo
