Asti, Italy
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@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ --- schema: foundry-doc-v1 title: "Asti Regional Market" slug: it-asti language: en language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC category: markets index_group: italy-market-profiles type: topic content_type: topic quality: stub status: active audience: customer-woodfine bcsc_class: current-fact short_description: "Piedmont provincial capital carrying a Tier 1 and a Tier 2 co-location cluster, one of the few Italian markets with a Tier 2 entry." paired_with: markets/it-asti.es.md wikipedia_sourced: true last_edited: 2026-09-07 editor: editorial --- Asti is carried in the confirmed 2026-08-07 Regional Markets dataset with one Tier 1 and one Tier 2 co-location cluster — one of only two markets in Italy's published set carrying a Tier 2 entry. ## Overview Asti is a comune of 74,348 inhabitants (as of 2021) located in the Italian region of Piedmont, about 55 kilometres east of Turin, in the plain of the Tanaro River. It is the capital of the Province of Asti. <!-- wikipedia-sourced: population/description --> ## Regional Market Standing | Field | Value | |---|---| | Metropolitan reference point | Turin | | Distance (straight-line) | 44.6 km | | Co-location clusters | 1 Tier 1, 1 Tier 2, 0 Tier 3 | | Catchment population | Not shown in this table | [[about-regional-markets-system|The co-location qualification system]] selects on anchor composition, not on distance from a metro core. ## See Also - [[about-regional-markets-system|Regional Markets Intelligence System]] - [[atlas-italy|Italy Regional Market Index]] - [[co-location-methodology|Co-location Methodology]] ## References - [Asti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asti) — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-09-07 *Wikipedia content reproduced under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).*