Savigliano

Comune in Piedmont, Italy

Savigliano Savijan (Piedmontese)
Comune
Città di Savigliano

Coat of arms
Location of Savigliano
44°39′N 7°38′E / 44.650°N 7.633°E / 44.650; 7.633
Country	Italy
Region	Piedmont
Province	Cuneo (CN)
Frazioni	Apparizione, Braida, Canavere Alte, Canavere Basse, Cascina Due Porte, Cavallotta, Ex Ferriera, Levaldigi, Martinetto-Consolata, Oropa, Palazzo, Rigrasso, San Salvatore, Sanità, Solere, Suniglia, Tetti Roccia, Tetti Vigna
Government
• Mayor	Antonello Portera
Area ^[1]
• Total	110.79 km² (42.78 sq mi)
Elevation	321 m (1,053 ft)
Population (1 January 2021)^[2]
• Total	21,442
• Density	190/km² (500/sq mi)
Demonym	Saviglianese(i)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	12038
Dialing code	0172
Patron saint	St. Sebastian
Saint day	August 19
Website	Official website

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

It is home to 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.

Main sights

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

There is also a train museum exhibiting numerous Italian past trains and locomotives.

Notable people

Elena Busso, volleyball player^[3]
Giovanni Schiaparelli, astronomer^[4]
Santorre di Santarosa, an Italian Philhellene
Luca Filippi, racing driver

Twin towns

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

References

^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ "Pema Corplast Corridonia: Elena Busso rimane e spiega il perchè – Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile". Legavolley femminile (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-02-17.
^ "Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli | Italian astronomer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-02-17.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Savigliano". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 242.