Piedmont

The region Piedmont is situated in the North Western part of Italy, largely surrounded by the Alps. The literal translation of Piedmont is “at the feet of the mountains”. This region is even for Italian standards rather vast; from Lago Maggiore in the north, a little more south the rice fields at the river Po in the region Vercelli/Novara down to Turin, the Alps and his ski regions to the southern provinces of Asti, Alessandria and Cuneo in the direction of the Mediterranean sea.

The varied landscape has a lot of cultural-historic places of interest and nature parks and reserves. It offers a wide range of hiking, cycling and biking routes and the possibility to go skiing.

From history books we know Piedmont also as the region from the royal kingdom Savoye which ruled for more than 1,000 years over this region and a great number of regions and countries beyond.
The city of Turin, with the knickname ‘little Paris’, was the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy. For a long time we only knew Turin as the city of Fiat factory. Only after the Olympic Winter Games of 2006 Turin became a beloved and popular city. A visit to this fascinating city is appealing.