Savigliano is a comune

Comune

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of 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...

, northern Italy

Italy

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, in the Province of Cuneo

Province of Cuneo

ayr is a province in the southwest of the Piedmont region of Italy. To the west it borders on the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ....

, c. 50 kilometers south 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...

 by rail.

It has important ironworks, foundries, locomotive works (once owned by Fiat Ferroviaria

Fiat Ferroviaria

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, now by Alstom

Alstom

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) 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

Caterina Micaela of Spain

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.

Savigliano is the hometown of Giovanni Schiaparelli

Giovanni Schiaparelli

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian. He studied at the University of Turin and Berlin Observatory. In 1859-1860 he worked in Pulkovo Observatory and then worked for over forty years at Brera Observatory...

, who discovered the canali of Mars.
Savigliano is also the hometown of Santorre di Santarosa,an Italian Philhellene killed by Turks in Pylos

Pylos

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 ,Greece 1825.

Twin towns

Pylos

Pylos

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, Greece, since 1962 Mormanno

Mormanno

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, Italy, since 1962 Villa María

Villa María

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, Argentina

Argentina

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, since 2000