The "County" of San Giorgio

The 1400 and 1500’s were centuries of wars, in which San Giorgio had taken part and suffers many sacks. It is this period in which San Giorgio also suffered many urbanistic interventions, for military purposes, of which it is still possible to find traces in the particular structuralization of the historical center. In this same period, the Francescan convent had been erected as an act of divine supplication. And to that convent the miraculous figure of blessed Candido Ranzi (whose mortal remains are preserved in the parish church) is bound.

A moment of glory for the village happened in 1523, when the Emperor Carlo the 5th established the birth of the county of San Giorgio. That is the title which, since that moment, the Biandrates began to call themselves.

With the peace of Cherasco, in 1631, San Giorgio became part of Savoy lands. After many centuries of influence a less important historical period of the village begins. In that period, in aid of troubled clergy, were born the Compagnia of San Giorgio and the three ward confraternities, which are still active today.