Savigliano

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Savigliano
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Savigliano (Italy)
Savigliano
Country Italy
region Piedmont
province Cuneo  (CN)
Coordinates 44 ° 39 '  N , 7 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 38 '52 "  N , 7 ° 39' 15"  E
height 321  m slm
surface 110 km²
Residents 21,665 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 197 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 12038
prefix 0172
ISTAT number 004215
Popular name Saviglianesi
Patron saint San Sebastiano
Website Savigliano

Savigliano ( Piedmontese Savijan ) is a small town with 21,665 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Italian province of Cuneo (CN), Piedmont region .

geography

The neighboring municipalities are Cavallermaggiore , Cervere , Fossano , Genola , Lagnasco , Marene , Monasterolo di Savigliano , Scarnafigi , Verzuolo , Villafalletto and Vottignasco .

The city is located southeast of Turin , 33 km from the provincial capital Cuneo at an altitude of 320  m slm. The municipal area covers an area of ​​110.74  km² .

history

The settlement, already mentioned in 981, became part of the Margraviate of Saluzzo in the 14th century , fell to France in 1548 and to the Duchy of Savoy in 1601 . The fortified city played an important strategic role until the 18th century. Accessed by the railroad in 1853, Savigliano became an important location for the textile and mechanical engineering industries. The railway works, founded in 1880 as SNOS , were later taken over by FIAT and are now part of the French group Alstom .

Attractions

The historical center of the city is the elongated Piazza Santorre di Santarosa . Especially on its west side, it shows old buildings. The arcades that open towards the market are based on late Gothic building regulations. Houses no. 51, 53–54, 60–64 and 12 are still medieval. The Torre del Commune (no. 47) , which has been supplemented in baroque style, is essentially Gothic . To the north is the younger Piazza del Populo with its classicist market hall, to the south the Via S. Andrea , where the parish church of the same name (1699–1757) with its bell tower in the Rococo style joins the early baroque Palazzo Taffini (No. 53, Sparkasse) opposite. Its inner courtyard is surrounded by three-storey arcades. Around 1640 Giovanni Antonio Molineri furnished the ballroom with painted tapestries , which glorify the campaigns of the Savoy Duke Vittorio Amadeos I († 1637) under a ceiling fresco with the triumph of the goddess of victory . The nearby Palazzo Muratori Cravetta with its artistically richly decorated inner courtyard was built around the same time .

Also worth seeing is the Museo Ferroviario Piemontese with old steam and three-phase current locomotives, but also the diesel Pendolino and the TML prototype bogies as well as the mockups of the driver's cabs of the ETR 450 and ETR 460 . The Pendolino tilting trains from the ETR 401 to the ETR 610 are manufactured in Savigliano .

Town twinning

City partnerships exist with Villa María in Argentina and Pilos in Greece .

Sons and daughters

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ^ Heinz Schomann : Piedmont, Liguria, Aosta Valley. Art monuments and museums , (Reclams Art Guide Vol. 1,2) Stuttgart: Reclam, 1982, pp. 385–386; Ida Leinberger and Walter Pippke: Piemont , Cologne 2013, pp. 242–243.

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