Vercelli is a city and comune of about 47,000 inhabitants in the Province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy. One of the oldest urban sites in northern Italy, it was founded, according to most historians, around the year 600 BC.
The city is situated on the river Sesia in the plain of the river Po between Milan and Turin. It is an important centre for the cultivation of rice, and is surrounded by paddy fields, which are flooded in summer. Rainfall is most prevalent during the spring and autumn; thunderstorms are common in the summer.
Vercelli is home to numerous relics of the Roman period, e.g. an amphitheatre, hippodrome, sarcophagi, and many important inscriptions, some of which are Christian.
The archives of the metropolitan chapter contain valuable manuscripts, including an evangelarium of the fourth century, the “Novels” of Justinian, the Leges Langobardorum (Laws of the Lombards – Germanic); Étienne Baluze’s Capitularia regum Francorum (Acts of the Franks) (1677 version of medieval manuscripts); also hagiographical manuscripts, not all of which have been critically examined; and a very old copy of the Imitation of Christ, which is relied upon as an argument for attributing the authorship to John Gersen. The civil archives are not less important, and contain documents dating from 882. The extensive seminary contains a large library.

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