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The Maritime Alps Nature Park (Valdieri)
For years it has maintained a sisterhood with the French Parco Nazionale del Mercantour, ideally creating a grand European park. The park is Piemonte’s largest regionally protected area and finds its home among the Gesso, Stura, and Vermenagna valleys.
Capanne di Marcarolo Nature Park
It extends across the highland of Marcarolo, in the extreme southern part of the province of Alessandra. On days when weather permits, one sees the Ligure gulf and the sea’s influence has allowed plants from actual alpine flora to cohabitate with others that are characteristic of Mediterranean spots.
The Gran Paradise National Park (Ceresole Reale)
The protected area spreads out over 70,000 hectares between Piemonte and the Val d’Aosta. Within this diverse environment, which extends between the 800 meters and the more than 4,000 meters of the Gran Paradiso summit, a well defined flora grows. The ibex is the park’s animal symbol.
The Val Grande National Park (Verbania)
The largest wilderness area in Italia is located in the heart of this park, known throughout Europe as an important laboratory dedicated to the study of the natural evolution of flora and fauna in scarcely antropized lands.
Po River – Cuneo Tract (Saluzzo)
The entire tract of the Po River within Piemonte is under regional environmental protection. The Cuneo tract consists of the first section of the Parco del Po, including the mountainous part of the river and where the river first flows into the plain and then expands in the “Granda” province.
The Lame del Sesia Nature Park
This natural park was created in the middle of the rice paddies of the Vercelli plain to correspond to the Sesia River swamps, that is, the marshy areas and expanses of water that form in lands abandoned by a river that has changed its own course.
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Places
Filatoio Rosso di Caraglio
The Filatoio (Spinning Mill), built between 1676 and 1678, is an extraordinary example of 17th century Piemonte “industrial architecture”. Today, completely restored, it houses the Museo Regionale della Seta (Regional Silk Museum), as well as contemporary art shows.
Historical Wine Cellars in Canelli
The wine cellars – which hold ancient barrels perfectly lined-up – have brick arches, lowered large round arches connected to each other by tunnels that reach into the layers and strata of earth which have formed over the centuries.
La “Bollente” di Acqui Terme
This is an elegant, octagonal temple-structure inaugurated in 1879. This eclectic structure has a spring where sulfuric-salty-bromine-iodic water flows at a temperature of 74.5 degrees Celsius.
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People
Mouse on Mars
“Torino: a magnificent city from an architectural viewpoint. There was a lot of snow and people all over the place the last time we played in Piazza Vittorio during the 2006 Olympic White Nights: truly an atmosphere that cannot be replicated.”
Roberto Capucci
“Torino is an aristocratic city, not a scoundel. You natives are spared because there is not too much tourism and this is a great fortune. There is a class to this city that no longer exists elsewhere. I’m reminded of a woman like Rita Levi Montalcini, for whom I have designed over 50 dresses”.
Carolina Kostner
"The people of Piemonte are rather similar to the people of Alto Adige. That’s probably because the mountains are two steps away…but, in Torino, which is a big city, there isn’t the same atmosphere as there is in my part of the country. Here, there’s everything. Discovering its most interesting sides will be a true pleasure…"
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