Country Italy Province / Metropolitan city Cuneo (CN) Demonym(s) Saviglianesi Postal code 12038 | Region Piedmont Elevation 321 m (1,053 ft) Local time Thursday 2:03 PM | |
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Frazioni Apparizione, Canavere, Levaldigi, San Giacomo, Sanità, San Salvatore, Santa Rosalia, Solere, Solerette, Suniglia, Tetti Vigna, Cavallotta, Maresco, Tetti Roccia, Rigrasso Weather 12°C, Wind NW at 11 km/h, 92% Humidity Points of interest Múses ‑ Accademia Europea, Palazzo Taffini d'Acceglio, Muratori Cravetta Palace | ||
Savigliano (Savijan in Piemontese) is a comune of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the Province of Cuneo, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of Turin by rail.
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Map of Savigliano, Province of Cuneo, Italy
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 Santorre di Santarosa, an Italian Philhellene killed by Turks in Pylos, Greece 1825.