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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
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.
Abbazia di Novalesa
Near the monastery, there are four chapels dedicated to Saint Mary, Saint Salvador, Saint Michael, and the most important one to Saint Eldrado which has two splendid fresco cycles (from the late 11th century) narrating moments from the lives of Saint Eldrado and Saint Nicholas.
Castello di Mazzč
In the ancient underground parts of the medieval castle is the Museo della Tortura (Museum of Torture): tools and methods from the Holy Inquisition. The building is surrounded by a large park with a scenic view looking out over the Canavese.
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People
Carolina Kostner
“…Torino, which is my second Italian shelter, has an atmosphere that I really like, not only on ice. In Torino, I have found dreamlike places, little classical music shops. I spent an entire afternoon once, chatting with the owner of one of these shops about the history of the Flamenco.”
Africa Unite
"Africa United is not deeply Torinese. Bunna and I are from the province of Piemonte and we’re critical toward the so-called ‘Savoy pride’, but it’s a fact that we have experienced Torino’s turmoil."
Piero Chiambretti
"The free time I have, I spend in Torino. It’s the place where I grew as a human and professionally. My years of study and cabaret, those of fleeing and returning a winner, those of my haunts. Torino is my life."
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