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Piedmont
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Region of north western Italy, at the foot of the Alps, bordering with France.
A prevalently hilly and mountainous land, Piedmont is encircled by the Alps, the Po Valley and the Apennines.
Lowland Piedmont is a fertile agricultural region, producing wheat, rice, maize, and wine grapes. Piedmont is one of the great winegrowing regions in Italy. More than half of its 700 km² (170,000 acres) of vineyards are registered with DOC designations.
It produces wines of renowned depth such as the famed Barbera, Barolo, Barbaresco and Moscato, as well as lesser known varieties such as Dolcetto, Freisa, Grignolino and Brachetto. The region contains major industrial centres, notably Turin, home to the FIAT automobile works. Biella produces tissues and silks. Cuneo is the house of Ferrero's chocolate factories and important mechanical industries, able in the past to build the trailer for the Space Shuttle Columbia. The tertiary also is flourishing: one of Italy's major banking and insurance groups, Sanpaolo IMI, is based in Turin. In February 2006 Turin hosted the XX Olympic Winter Games and in 2007 the Universiades, Olympic games for university students.
Piedmont is divided into eight provinces: Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Cuneo, Novara, Turin, Verbano e Vercelli.
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Turin
Turin is a city that waits to be discovered: it has been the first capital of Italy (from 1861 to 1865), and today is one of the greatest economic, cultural, touristic and scientific cities of the nat ...
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Maggiore lake
Lake Maggiore, whose surface is shared between Italy and Switzerland, is one of main alpine lakes and the second biggest italian lake after Lake Garda.
A travel that allows to visit majestic l ...
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