Savigliano
Savigliano | |
|---|---|
| Città di Savigliano | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Savigliano  | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Piedmont |
| Province | Cuneo (CN) |
| Frazioni | Apparizione, Canavere, Levaldigi, San Giacomo, Sanità, San Salvatore, Santa Rosalia, Solere, Solerette, Suniglia, Tetti Vigna, Cavallotta, Maresco, Tetti Roccia, Rigrasso |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Sergio Soave |
| Area | |
| • Total | 110 km2 (40 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 321 m (1,053 ft) |
| Population (31 December 2008)[2] | |
| • Total | 20,845 |
| • Density | 190/km2 (490/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Saviglianesi |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 12038 |
| Dialing code | 0172 |
| Patron saint | St. Sebastian |
| Saint day | August 19 |
| Website | Official website |
Savigliano (Savijan in Piemontese) is a comune of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the Province of Cuneo, c. 50 kilometers south of Turin by rail.
It has important ironworks, foundries, locomotive works (once owned by Fiat Ferroviaria, now by Alstom) and silk manufactures, as well as sugar factories, printing works and cocoon-raising establishments. It retains some traces of its ancient walls, demolished in 1707, and has a fine collegiate church (S. Andrea, in its present form comparatively modern), and a triumphal arch erected in honour of the marriage of Charles Emmanuel I with Infanta Catherine of Austrian Spain.
Savigliano is the hometown of Giovanni Schiaparelli, who discovered the canali of Mars. Savigliano is also the hometown of Annibale Santorre di Rossi de Pomarolo,Count of Santarosa, an italian philellin killeb by turks in Pilos ,Greece 1825.
Twin towns
Pilos, Greece, since 1962
Mormanno, Italy, since 1962
Villa María, Argentina, since 2000
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.