Savigliano

Savigliano
Comune
Città di Savigliano
Coat of arms
Savigliano Location of Savigliano in Italy
Coordinates: 44°39′N 7°38′E / 44.650°N 7.633°ECoordinates: 44°39′N 7°38′E / 44.650°N 7.633°E
Country	Italy
Region	Piedmont
Province / Metropolitan city	Cuneo (CN)
Frazioni	Apparizione, Canavere, Levaldigi, San Giacomo, Sanità, San Salvatore, Santa Rosalia, Solere, Solerette, Suniglia, Tetti Vigna, Cavallotta, Maresco, Tetti Roccia, Rigrasso
Government
• Mayor	Sergio Soave
Area
• Total	110 km^2 (40 sq mi)
Elevation	321 m (1,053 ft)
Population (31 December 2013)
• Total	21,140
• Density	190/km^2 (500/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Saviglianesi
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	12038
Dialing code	0172
Patron saint	St. Sebastian
Saint day	August 19
Website	Official website

Savigliano (Savijan in Piemontese) is a comune of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the Province of Cuneo, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of Turin by rail.

It has important 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. It retains some traces of its ancient walls, demolished in 1707, and has a fine collegiate church (S. Andrea, in its present form comparatively modern), and a triumphal arch erected in honour of the marriage of Charles Emmanuel I with Infanta Catherine of Austrian Spain.

Savigliano is the hometown of Giovanni Schiaparelli, who discovered the canali of Mars. Savigliano is also the hometown of Santorre di Santarosa, an Italian Philhellene killed by Turks in Pylos, Greece 1825.

Twin towns

• Pylos, Greece, since 1962
• Mormanno, Italy, since 1962
• Villa María, Argentina, since 2000

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "^{article name needed}". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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