Pino Torinese is a comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Turin

Province of Turin

The Province of Turin is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Turin.It has an area of 6,830 km², and a total population of 2,277,686 . There are 315 comuni in the province – the most of any province in Italy...

 in the Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 region Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

, located about 6 km southeast of Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 8,586 and an area of 21.9 km².

The municipality of Pino Torinese contains the frazioni

Frazione

A frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...

(subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Cento Croci, Strada San Felice, and Valle Ceppi.

Pino Torinese borders the following municipalities: Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

, Baldissero Torinese

Baldissero Torinese

Baldissero Torinese is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 9 km east of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,488 and an area of 15.5 km²....

, Chieri

Chieri

Chieri is a town and comune in the province of Turin, Piedmont , located about 11 km southeast of Turin...

, Pecetto Torinese

Pecetto Torinese

Pecetto Torinese is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 7 km southeast of Turin....

, Cambiano

Cambiano

Cambiano is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 13 km southeast of Turin.Cambiano borders the following municipalities: Pino Torinese, Chieri, Pecetto Torinese, Moncalieri, Trofarello, Santena, and Villastellone.-External links:*...

.

It is the site of the Observatory of Turin

Observatory of Turin

The Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Italy's Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica...

, founded in 1759.

External links

• www.comune.pinotorinese.to.it/