In Piemonte - Piemonte Feel

• Prehistory
• The Roman Era
• The Middle Ages
• The Modern Era
• The Seventeenth Century
• The Eighteenth Century
• The Nineteenth Century
• The Twentieth Century

From the moment when Emanuele Filiberto transferred the capital of the renaissance Duchy of Savoy to Turin, right up to the reunification of Italy, brought about both on the battlefields and in the chambers of the Subalpine parliament, which can still be seen in Palazzo Carignano, Piedmont was considered the "capital" region of Italy. The transfer of the Italian capital to Rome by no means deprived Piedmont of its central role in fostering new ideas and in the important developments of more recent history, such as the Resistance and the formation of the Welfare State. Indeed, Turin’s agency in the latter of these two was pivotal, partly due to its new role as Italy’s industrial capital, a title attained in the middle of the nineteenth century and still rigorously defended nowadays, in the 21st century. This capacity to constantly reinvent itself, transforming crises into opportunities for new development, means that Piedmont lies at the nerve centre for new technologies and innovation, not just in Italy, but in all of Europe.