Editing Charles Albert of Sardinia (section)

=== Voyage to Portugal ===
Charles Albert, however, had left Palazzo Bellini in Novara a few minutes after midnight on 23 March. His carriage travelled to [[Orfengo]] (on the road halfway between Novara and [[Vercelli]]), probably without any specific destination in mind, but after a little while he was stopped at an Austrian roadblock. Charles Albert identified himself as the Count of Barge (a title which he actually possessed) and a colonel of the Piedmontese army. General Georg Thurn Valsassina (1788–1866) interrogated him and it is not clear whether he recognized him or not. Having been confirmed as the Count of Barge by a captured sharpshooter (when asked "can you confirm that this is the Count of Barge?" the soldier responded, "He is the Count of Barge."), Charles Albert was allowed to pass and continued his journey to the southwest.<ref name =Dizionario-Biografico-Treccani/><ref>{{harvnb|Bertoldi|pp=260–265}}</ref>

The former king continued via [[Moncalvo]], [[Nizza Monferrato]], [[Acqui Terme|Acqui]], [[Savona]], [[Ventimiglia]] and [[Monaco]], which he reached on 26 March. At [[Nice]] in France, he dispatched instructions to organize his family affairs, without adding any information for his wife. On 1 April, he was at [[Bayonne]], near the Atlantic coast, and on 3 April he received a message from Turin in order to get him to legally confirm his abdication.<ref>{{harvnb|Bertoldi|p=266}}</ref>

Charles Albert continued through [[Torquemada, Palencia|Torquemada]], [[Valladolid]], [[León, Spain|León]], and [[A Coruña]], which he reached on 10 April, and which was the end of the carriage road. On horseback, suffering from illness, he reached [[Lugo]] on 15 April and entered Portuguese territory at [[Caminha]]. From there he went to [[Viana do Castelo]], [[Póvoa de Varzim]] and, finally, on 19 April, at noon, he arrived in [[Porto]].<ref name="archpitt">{{Cite book | title = Archivo pittoresco Volume XI | publisher = Castro Irmão & C.ª | year = 1868}}</ref> From there he may have planned to travel to America, but he was forced to stop because he had become ill with a liver complaint.<ref>{{harvnb|Bertoldi|pp=266–267}}</ref>