The region’s name comes from the fact that it is “at the foot of the mountains”, the imposing Alpine ranges with famous skiing resorts such as Sestriere. Its principal city Turin is a centre of baroque art and has one of the most important Egyptian museums in the world. Piedmont is a large industrial centre and the wine produced on its southern hills (Barolo and Barbera) is particularly important.

Tucked away in north-west Italy and bordered by the Alps and Liguria, Piemonte does not feel as Italian as other regions, the neighbouring countries of Switzerland and France having perhaps had a calming influence on its people. Nevertheless, it is still a highly alluring region, one of the most delightful that we have discovered in recent years.

Piemonte is best known ? among wine lovers at least ? for its full-bodied, velvety Barolo. This is produced in the gently rolling hills of the Langhe in the southern part of the region, where medieval castles stand guard over the vineyards.

Turin - Torino

Position and Frontier:
The Piedmontese territory includes the inside part of the western Alps with a line of Appennino and the western part of Lowland Padana. The confinements with France and Switzerland determine the political border of Italy. To south it confines with Liguria and to east with Lombardy and for a brief line with Emilia. To north of the Piedmontese geographical territory Valley of Aosta is also found, that however it forms a region to oneself.

Rivers - Lakes:
The Piedmontese rivers are all tributaries of Po and they have an alpine regime, seen the thin winter and the floods in spring and summer. This is owed from the reservoirs of the glaciers and from the rains that in spring, when they start to melt, they go down quickly from the streams and they meet in the rivers. Po with 652 kms of run is the longest river and with great course of water, it is born from the Plan of the King from Monviso and it crosses the whole region. The principal tributaries of left are Dora Riparia, Stura of Lanzo, Orco, Dora Baltea that goes down from Valley of Aosta, Sesia, Ticino and Toce that meets its waters in Maggiore Lake. In small number they are the tributaries of right with Tanaro where Bormida and the Scrivia meet. All the mountains that surround Piedmont are sprinkled by hundreds of micro-lakes said alpine lakes. The greatest lakes that Piedmont possesses are the western shore and the zone north to border with Switzerland of Lake Maggiore and those of Lake of Orta and the of Viverone.

Climate:
In the alpine zone it is very cold. The climate however in the lowland is continental, or rather cold winters and often dry, warm summers, spring and winter rains. There are often formations of fogs as after all it is characteristic in Lowland Padana. On the shores of the lakes the climate is mild.

Population:
The population is not distributed so much fairly less in mountain and in the tall hill. Strong accumulation is found in the big urban agglomeration in Turin. The industrial development has favored the phenomenon of the immigration from the other region, in special way from Calabria, Puglia, Sicily, Marche and Veneto. The same Piedmontese inhabitants left the countries to move to the centers more industrialized. In many gods abandoned farms took over immigrated agriculturists, attracted by the mirage of the city.

Main cities

ALESSANDRIA
ASTI
BIELLA
CUNEO
NOVARA
SESTRIERE
TORINO (TURIN)
VERBANIA
VERCELLI

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