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Piedmont is a region in the northwest of , next to the border with . The main city is , which was host to the 2006 Winter Olympic Games.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Turin and Novara.

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is a city in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, with a population of about 844,000 in 2023, and another 1.5 million across its metropolitan area.

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is the capital city of the province of in the Piedmont region of northwest . It had 104,000 residents in 2019, and is the second most populous city in Piedmont after .

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is the capital of the province of , one of the most important wine areas in Italy, and lends its name to some illustrious wines, such as Moscato d'.

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is a hilly region in the Cuneo province of Piedmont in . It is home to a number of world famous wine producing regions, including Barolo and Barbaresco.

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is a town in Piedmont. The capital and largest settlement in the Province of , it is famous for being a bastion of the Italian Resistenza, which was one of the fiercest opponents to Nazi Germany as well as their puppet state local regime, the Italian Social Republic.

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is the largest city and the capital of the province of in Piedmont. It's famous as the birthplace of the Italian medievalist writer Umberto Eco.

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is a city on the promontory at the northern side of the entrance to the Borromean Bay, a western arm of in Piedmont, . The city has several parts, as it was formed from the merger of several towns.

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is a city and comune in the northern region of Piedmont, the capital of the . With a population of 43,181, it is the 12th-largest city in Piedmont.

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is a town of 23,000 in the province of Turin in Piedmont, . In the middle of the 20th century, many factories and residential buildings designed by leading Italian urban planners and architects were constructed in .

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is a comune about 8 kilometres directly south of the center of , in the region of Piedmont in . With a population of 55,439, it is the most populous suburb of Turin.

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is the largest city in the Ossola district, and the second-largest city in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, in Piedmont, in .

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is a small town on the south side of the Borromean Bay, a western arm of in Piedmont, Northern . The Borromean Islands are a group of three small islands, Isola Bella, Isola dei Pescatori and Isola Madre, and two islets in the Borromean Bay and together totalling just 20 ha in area.

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is a town and comune in Piedmont in the upper Susa Valley. It is an important centre for winter sports with two ski areas: Colomion-Les Arnauds-Melezet and Jafferau.

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is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, northwestern , 40 kilometres southwest of on the river . The Lemina torrent has its source at the boundary between and San Pietro Val di Lemina.

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is a town and comune in Piedmont in the Metropolitan City of . is a town steeped in history. Capital of the Roman province of Alpes Cottiae, was historically an important stop along the trade routes connecting Italy and France.

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is a town of 30,000 people in Piedmont. It is a culinary destination, home to the Slow Food movement and the University of Gastronomic Sciences, so you are guaranteed to eat and drink well.

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is a town near on , near its southern end, in the Piedmont region of .

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is a town of 3,300 people in the Piedmont region of near the town of Sauze d', a famous ski resort. sits at the confluence of the Dora di Riparia and the Dora di Bardonecchia rivers in the Susa Valley, about 76 km west of .

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is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the region Piedmont, located about 50 kilometres northeast of .

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is a town on in Piedmont, . It lies at the end of the Cannobina Valley on the west side of the lake. The municipality shares a border with and the town is 10 minutes from the border.

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is a quaint town of 4,500 residents near on the shore of the Borromean Bay, a western arm of , in Piedmont, .

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is a comune of Piedmont, Northern Italy, in the , about 50 kilometres south of by rail. It is home to ironworks, foundries, locomotive works and silk manufactures, as well as sugar factories, printing works and cocoon-raising establishments.

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is a village of 750 people in the Piedmont region of . The village of lies in a beautiful sunny valley north west of Piedmont and marks the divide between Piedmont and the Aosta Valley.

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is a town of 3,300 people in Piedmont, . It is included among the "most beautiful villages in Italy" and has been awarded the orange flag by the Italian Touring Club.

Piedmont

Latitude of center
45.0607° or 45° 3′ 39″ north
Longitude of center
7.9235° or 7° 55′ 25″ east
Population
4,460,000
Elevation
185 metres (607 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1781917328
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3170831
Wiki­data ID
Q1216
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Piedmont” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Piëmont”
  • Albanian: “Piemonti”
  • Amharic: “ፕዬሞንቴ”
  • Arabic: “بيمنتة”
  • Arabic: “بييمونتي”
  • Aragonese: “Piemont”
  • Armenian: “Պիեմոնտ”
  • Arpitan: “Piemont”
  • Asturian: “El Piamonte”
  • Asturian: “Piamonte”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pyemont”
  • Balinese: “Piémonté”
  • Basque: “Piemonte”
  • Belarusian: “П’емонт”
  • Belarusian: “Пемонт”
  • Bosnian: “Pijemont”
  • Breton: “Piemonte”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиемонт”
  • Bulgarian: “Регион Пиемонт”
  • Catalan: “Piemont”
  • Cebuano: “Piemonte”
  • Central Bikol: “Piedmont”
  • Central Kurdish: “پیدمۆنت”
  • Chechen: “Пьемонт”
  • Chinese: “Piemonte”
  • Chinese: “皮埃蒙特”
  • Chinese: “皮埃蒙特大区”
  • Chinese: “皮埃蒙特大區”
  • Chinese: “皮耶蒙”
  • Chuvash: “Пьемонт”
  • Cornish: “Piemonte”
  • Corsican: “Piemonte”
  • Corsican: “Piemontu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Pyemont”
  • Croatian: “Pijemont”
  • Czech: “Piemont”
  • Danish: “Piemonte”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Piemonte”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Piyemont”
  • Dutch: “Piëmont”
  • Dutch: “Piemonte”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بييمونتى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پييدمونت”
  • Esperanto: “Piemonto”
  • Estonian: “Piemonte”
  • Faroese: “Piemonte”
  • Finnish: “Piemonte”
  • French: “Piémont”
  • Friulian: “Piemont”
  • Galician: “Piemonte”
  • Georgian: “პიემონტი”
  • German: “Piemont”
  • Gilaki: “پيمؤنته”
  • Greek: “Πεδεμόντιο”
  • Guarani: “Piamónte”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Phì-âi-mùng-thi̍t”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Piemonte”
  • Hebrew: “פיאמונטה”
  • Hebrew: “פיימונט”
  • Hebrew: “פיימונטה”
  • Hindi: “पिडमांट”
  • Hungarian: “Piemont”
  • Icelandic: “Fjallaland”
  • Icelandic: “Piemonte”
  • Ido: “Piemont”
  • Indonesian: “Piemonte”
  • Interlingua: “Pedemonte”
  • Irish: “Píodmant”
  • Italian: “Piemont”
  • Italian: “Piemonte”
  • Italian: “Regione Piemonte”
  • Japanese: “ピエモンテ州”
  • Javanese: “Piemonte”
  • Kazakh: “Пьемонт”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តជើងភ្នំ”
  • Kikuyu: “Piemonte”
  • Kirghiz: “Пьемонт”
  • Korean: “피에몬테 주”
  • Korean: “피에몬테”
  • Korean: “피에몬테주”
  • Kurdish: “Piemont”
  • Ladin: “Piemont”
  • Ladin: “Piemonte”
  • Ladino: “Piemonte”
  • Latin: “Pedemontium”
  • Latvian: “Pjemonta”
  • Ligurian: “Piemonte”
  • Limburgan: “Piëmont”
  • Lithuanian: “Pjemontas”
  • Lombard: “Piemont”
  • Luxembourgish: “Piemont”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Piemont”
  • Macedonian: “Пиемонт”
  • Malagasy: “Piemonte”
  • Malay: “Piemonte”
  • Maltese: “Piemonte”
  • Maltese: “Pjemonte”
  • Marathi: “प्यिमाँत”
  • Mazanderani: “پیمونت”
  • Mazanderani: “پیمونته”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Piedmont”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Piemonte”
  • Mingrelian: “პიემონტი”
  • Neapolitan: “Piemunte”
  • Nepali: “पियडमोन्ट”
  • Northern Frisian: “Piemont”
  • Northern Sami: “Piemonte”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Piemonte”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piemonte”
  • Norwegian: “Piemonte”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Piemont”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Piedmont”
  • Ossetian: “Пьемонт”
  • Pampanga: “Piedmont”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੀਏਮੋਂਤੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Piemonte”
  • Persian: “پیمونت”
  • Persian: “پیه‌مونت”
  • Picard: “Piémont”
  • Piemontese: “Piemont”
  • Polish: “Piemont”
  • Portuguese: “Piemonte”
  • Quechua: “Piemonte”
  • Romanian: “Piemont”
  • Romansh: “Piemont”
  • Russian: “Пьемонт”
  • Rusyn: “Пьемонт”
  • Sardinian: “Piemonte”
  • Scots: “Piemont”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Piemonte”
  • Serbian: “Пијемонт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pijemont”
  • Sicilian: “Piemunti”
  • Slovak: “Piemont”
  • Slovenian: “Piemont”
  • Spanish: “Piamonte”
  • Spanish: “Región de Piamonte”
  • Swahili: “Piemonte”
  • Swedish: “Piemonte”
  • Swiss German: “Piemont”
  • Tagalog: “Piamonte”
  • Tagalog: “Piemonte”
  • Tamil: “பியத்மாந்து”
  • Tatar: “Пьемонт”
  • Thai: “แคว้นปีเยมอนเต”
  • Thai: “แคว้นปีเอมอนเต”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Piemont”
  • Turkish: “Piyemonte Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Piyemonte”
  • Ukrainian: “П’ємонт”
  • Ukrainian: “Пємонт”
  • Urdu: “پیعیمونتے”
  • Uzbek: “Piemont”
  • Venetian: “Piemonte”
  • Vietnamese: “Piemonte”
  • Vlaams: “Piëmonte”
  • Volapük: “Piemontän”
  • Volapük: “Piemonte”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Piemonte”
  • Welsh: “Piemonte”
  • Western Frisian: “Piëmont”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیعیمونتے”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ پیغمونتے”
  • Wu Chinese: “皮埃蒙特大区”
  • Yue Chinese: “皮耶蒙”
  • “ma lili Pijemonte”
  • “ma Pijemonte”
  • “Piemånt”
  • “Piemonde”
  • “Piemonte”

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