Nordoccidental region of Italy, its vegetation is of mount low and shrub. Native region of Umberto Echo. The kingdom of Piedmont was the one that led the Italian reunification, becoming its king Vittorio Emmanuele II in king of Italy 1862. The region is, next to the Lombardía, the industrialized zone more of Italy, and is host of great companies of that country, between which it honors the Fiat (which also is owner of Ferrari) The territory piamontés is to a large extent mountainous (43%). Between the most important mountains it emphasizes the mountainous chain of the Alps whose higher tip, Monte Rosa, reaches the 4634 meters. In Piedmont the longest river is born of Italy, the Po, and some of its more important affluents like the Tanaro and the Dora Baltea. In the zone limitrofe with Lombardy is him Lake Maggiore, the second greater lake of Italy.
Turin is the capital of the region and counts a million inhabitants almost. Other important cities are: Alessandria, Asti, It, Cuneo, Novated, Verbania and Vercelli. Piedmont is a full region of history and natural beauties. Who visits Piedmont has the possibility of submerging in the history of cities like Turin, to enjoy beautiful peaks of Monte Rosa, Monte Argentera and the Monviso or to visit the National Park of the Great Paradise and the famous passages of Frejus and of the Sempione. Not we can you forget the precious Maggiore Lake with the Borromeas islands where prestigious gardens to Italian and the huge palaces of the Borromeo family are conserved. In addition, the region offers diversion, cultural initiatives of several types, sport activities and an optimal kitchen.
The more important tourist localities are: Sestriere, ski resort for the lovers of the winter sports, Bardonecchia and Salice D'Ulzio, famous by the beautiful routes that you can be crossed through its valleys, and the Oasis of Zegna that characterize by a still uncontaminated nature selvaje and, far from the mass tourism. Turin (Torino) is the biggest city of the region and the fourth greatest one of the country. In the first decades of this century, it was the world-wide capital of the automobile. It was here where the futurismo was created and everything was raised so much with the potential of the mechanized transport which they declared the Died Time, as of that moment only would be measured in speed terms. The city continues being the center of the automobile industry of Italy. Fiat offers excursions guided in its facilities, in where a track of tests can be found in its ceiling. Turin, of course, has many more things than they demonstrate his love towards the automobile industry. The inhabitants boast themselves of their ample avenues, with aligned trees and flanked by discharges and beautiful urban houses, and they consider it like Italian Paris. The high part of the city of Turin this centered in the main street of purchases, Via Rome, that connects the favorite seat of the city, the Piazza San Car it, with its more dramatic building, the baroque Madama Palace, that contains the Museum of the Old Art, the one of the most important museums city at national level, and the Egyptian Museum, the second greatest one of the world after the one of the Cairo. The famous cover of Turin can be seen in the white marble cathedral of century XV.