Travel in Piedmont
Piedmont: where the past meets the future. Centuries of art and a rich living culture of food and wine; traditional crafts side by side with scientific research. This region is a powerful industrial force, in the forefront of innovation and new technologies, but it is also fiercely protective of its beautiful and fruitful natural heritage, the land. So for the tourist the choice is endless: from architecture, art and cultural events to sport and leisure activities in the open air.
The region is mostly mountains and hills, on the north-western border of Italy with France and Switzerland. All surrounded by some of the highest mountains in Europe, such as the Gran Paradiso and Monte Rosa, in the East is occupied by the Pianura Padana, crossed by the largest river in Italy, the Po, and its many tributaries.
Most of the population live in the plain, and especially in the wide metropolitan area of Turin, Novara and Vercelli where a great many mechanical and car industries are located. Thanks to the great abundance of water agriculture is very important, the main products being rice, wine, maize, potatoes and the precious white truffle.
Tourism is also especially lively in the winter resorts in the Alps. But in spite of the advanced industrialization and modernity of the cities, the Piedmontese are very conservative as far as their traditions are concerned, and folk festivals are still widely attended.
The Portal
This portale as all those of the Skipvacanze circuit is aimed at informing all those who are going to travel or to make a vacation in Piedmont, with a simple and fast navigation it will be possible to find all the required information such as lodgings, museums, monuments, Parks and Natural Reserves and why not, a little bit of history to come to know better this island that has been so important for the development of Italy and its history.
Special pages from which you will be able to search the whole portal will guide you to the discovery of this region.