Vercelli (It. Provincia di Vercelli) is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Vercelli. In Italy, the Province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (regione). ... Piedmont is a region of northwestern Italy. ... Vercelli is a commune of ~46,000 inhabitants, in the Province of Vercelli, Italy. ...
It has an area of 2,088 sq km, and a total population of 176,829 (2001). There are 86 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see this link (http://www.upinet.it/indicatore.asp?id_statistiche=6)).
In 1499 and 1553 it was captured by the French, and in 1616 and 1678 by the Spaniards.
From Vercelli the Gospel spread through the valley of the Po and its environs; towards the end of the fourth century, perhaps even during the episcopate of St.
In 1817 the Diocese of Vercelli, then suffragan of Turin (but previously of Milan) was made an archdiocese, the first archbishop being Giuseppe di Grimaldi.
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