Savigliano | |
Official Name: | Città di Savigliano |
Coordinates: | 44.65°N 45°W |
Region: | Piedmont |
Province: | Cuneo (CN) |
Frazioni: | Apparizione, Braida, Canavere Alte, Canavere Basse, Cascina Due Porte, Cavallotta, Ex Ferriera, Levaldigi, Martinetto-Consolata, Oropa, Palazzo, Rigrasso, San Salvatore, Sanità, Solere, Suniglia, Tetti Roccia, Tetti Vigna |
Mayor: | Antonello Portera |
Area Total Km2: | 110.79 |
Population Total: | 21442 |
Population As Of: | 1 January 2021 |
Population Demonym: | Saviglianese(i) |
Elevation M: | 321 |
Saint: | St. Sebastian |
Day: | August 19 |
Postal Code: | 12038 |
Area Code: | 0172 |
Savigliano (Savijan) is a Italian: [[comune]] of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the Province of Cuneo, about 50km (30miles) south of Turin by rail.
It is home to ironworks, foundries, locomotive works (once owned by Fiat Ferroviaria, now by Alstom) and silk manufactures, as well as sugar factories, printing works and cocoon-raising establishments.
Savigliano retains some traces of its ancient walls, demolished in 1707, and has a collegiate church (S. Andrea, in its present form comparatively modern), and a triumphal arch erected in honour of the marriage of Charles Emmanuel I to Infanta Catherine of Austrian Spain.
There is also a train museum exhibiting numerous Italian past trains and locomotives.