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Piedmont
Chief town:
Torino
It derives from Pedemontium that it indicated that zone comprised between the rivers Po, Dora Riparia and Sangone who rose
Surface:kmq 25.399
Mountain:43,3%
Hill:30,3%
Plain:26,4%
Inhabitants Piemonte:
4.214.677
History of Piedmont
What to eat in Piedmont
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| Torino | Alessandria | Asti | Biella | Cuneo | Novara |
Verbano Cusio Ossola | Vercelli |
In 1046, the counts of the House of Savoy added Piedmont to their main territory of Savoy, with a capital at Chambéry (now in France). The County of Savoy was elevated to a duchy in 1416, and Duke Emanuele Filiberto moved the seat to Turin in 1563. In 1720, the Duke of Savoy became King of Sardinia, founding what evolved into the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia and increasing Turin's importance as a European capital.
The Republic of Alba was created in 1796 as a French client republic in Piedmont before the area was annexed by France in 1801. In June 1802 a new client republic, the Subalpine Republic, was established in Piedmont and in September it was also annexed. In the congress of Vienna, the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia was restored, and furthermore received the Republic of Genoa to strengthen it as a barrier against France.
Piedmont was the springboard for Italy's unification in 1859-1861, following earlier unsuccessful wars against the Austrian Empire in 1820-1821 and 1848-1849. This process is sometimes referred to as Piedmontisation. The House of Savoy became Kings of Italy, and Turin briefly became the capital of Italy. However, the addition of territory paradoxically reduced Piedmont's importance to the kingdom, and the capital was removed to Florence, and then to Rome. One remaining recognition of Piedmont's historical role was that the crown prince of Italy was known as the Prince of Piedmont.
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| Torino |
 Turin is located in northwest Italy. It is surrounded on the western and northern front by the Alps and on the southern front by the hills of Monferrato. Four major rivers pass through the city: the Po and two of its tributaries, the Dora Riparia (from the Celtic duria meaning 'water', later changed to 'Duria Minor' by the Romans), the Stura di Lanzo, and the...
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| Alessandria |
 Alessandria was founded in 1168 upon a preexisting urban nucleus, to serve as a stronghold for the Lombard League, defending the traditional liberties of the communes of northern Italy against the Imperial forces of Frederick Barbarossa. Alessandria stood in the territories of the marchese of Monferrato, a staunch ally of the Emperor, with a name...
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| Asti |
 With the exception of several brief periods under Visconti, Montferrat and Sforza, Asti remained under the Valois rule, and then directly under the French Crown. Situation changed in the early 16th century, during the wars between Charles V and Francis I of France. In 1526 it was besieged in vain by Charles' condottiero Fabrizio Maramaldo. Three years later...
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| Biella |
 Archeological findings bear witness to the fact that the first inhabitants of the Biellese (as the area surrounding Biella is called) were prehistoric Ligurian and Celtic populations originally dedicated to hunting and fishing, and subsequently to stock-rearing, who mainly settled near the water courses of the hilly and sub-alpine regions. Another group of...
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| Cuneo |
 Visit of the historical center. Piazza Galimberti, heart of the city and center of the rinomato market of the tuesday will be able to be admired airy, than it extends also along main the viario axis of the old city, Via Rome, than conserve the antichi ones you carry to us medieval. Little beyond the public square, we meet the Dome, the ancient church of...
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| Novara |
 The old urban core makes up the 'Historic Centre', situated in the district of the same name. Novara once had an encircling wall, which was demolished to permit urban development. Of the old wall there remains only the Barriera Albertina, a complex of two neo-classical buildings that constituted the gate of entry to the city, the required passageway for those...
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| Verbano Cusio Ossola |
 Interesting zone from the naturalistic point of view, comprises part of the lago from which it takes the name: lago Verbano with the famous small Borromee Islands and also piú the lago of Mergozzo and lago of Orta. Part of the territory is but mountainous and beyond comprising the National Park of the Val Grande and the Park of the Alpe Waking and the Alpe Devero...
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| Vercelli |
 Vercellae (Vercelum) was a city of the Libici or Lebecili, a Ligurian tribe; it became an important municipium, near which Gaius Marius defeated the Cimbri and the Teutones in the Battle of Vercellae nearby in 101 BCE. Imperial magister militum Flavius Stilicho annihilated the Goths there 500 years later. It was half ruined in St. Jerome's time. After the...
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