Piedmont, between History and Culture
Among the bigger Italian region, Piedmont offers to his visitors a lot of attractions, both of landscape and natural that historical, social and cultural. The variety of the landscape spaces from the lowlands in Alexandria, Novara and Vercelli, “coloured” by a radiant green of the rice-fields, to the hills of Astigiano and Canavese, to the Lakes Orta and Maggiore, up to the high mountains that mark the confinements with Switzerland and France, with mythical tops like Rosa Mount. Celebrated in all the world also for the recent winter Olympiads in Turin 2006, the mountain group of Sestriere is one of the more appreciated and attended skiing districts of the Alps.
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