Explore Piedmont
Places in Piedmont
50 places
Torino
Province TO
841,600 residents
The regional capital and Italy's first post-unification capital, a grid of arcaded streets and baroque squares with a heavy industrial layer from Fiat.
Novara
Province NO
101,257 residents
A rice-growing and logistics city on the plain between Milan and Turin, and the second largest in Piedmont.
Alessandria
Province AL
91,059 residents
A provincial capital founded in 1168 by the Lombard League against Frederick Barbarossa, on the plain where the Tanaro and Bormida meet.
Asti
Province AT
73,421 residents
A wine town of about 74,000 in southern Piedmont, historically a rich free commune that built well over a hundred towers, a dozen of which still stand.
Moncalieri
Province TO
56,117 residents
A town of about 55,000 immediately south of Turin on the Po, the largest of the city's satellites.
Cuneo
Province CN
55,744 residents
A provincial capital at 534 metres on a wedge of land where the Stura and Gesso meet, laid out with long arcaded streets and one very large central square.
Vercelli
Province VC
45,206 residents
A city of about 46,000 in the middle of Europe's largest rice-growing district, on the Sesia between Milan and Turin.
Biella
Province BI
42,619 residents
A wool and textile town of about 43,000 at the foot of the Alps, roughly 80 kilometres northeast of Turin, with guild records for weavers going back to the 13th century.
Chieri
Province TO
35,822 residents
A town about 11 kilometres southeast of Turin that was a medieval republic and later a cotton and textile centre.
Pinerolo
Province TO
35,418 residents
A town about 40 kilometres southwest of Turin at the mouth of the Val Chisone.
Venaria Reale
Province TO
32,288 residents
A town just northwest of Turin, built in the 17th century as the service settlement for a Savoy hunting palace.
Casale Monferrato
Province AL
32,204 residents
A town on the right bank of the Po, historically the capital of the Marquisate and Duchy of Montferrat and later an industrial cement town.
Alba
Province CN
31,210 residents
A town at the centre of the Langhe wine country, built on the Roman settlement of Alba Pompeia.
Verbania
Province VB
29,945 residents
A lakeside town on the western shore of Lake Maggiore, formed in 1939 by merging Pallanza and Intra.
Bra
Province CN
29,523 residents
A town in the Roero between the Langhe and Turin, best known as the birthplace of the Slow Food movement and the seat of its University of Gastronomic Sciences at nearby Pollenzo.
Carmagnola
Province TO
28,182 residents
A town on the plain south of Turin, historically a Saluzzo and then Savoy possession, and now an intensive market-gardening centre.
Novi Ligure
Province AL
27,252 residents
A town in the Alessandria province on the historic road between Milan and Genoa, long under Genoese rule, which shows in the painted facades of its centre.
Tortona
Province AL
26,432 residents
A town founded as the Roman Dertona around 120 BC at the junction of the Via Postumia and the Via Aemilia Scauri.
Chivasso
Province TO
26,224 residents
A town on the Po northeast of Turin, of probable Roman origin and now a major rail junction where the Turin lines to Milan, Aosta and Casale meet.
Fossano
Province CN
24,190 residents
A town in the Cuneo plain, founded as a commune in 1236 and dominated by a large square castle built by the Acaja branch of the Savoy in the early 14th century.
Ivrea
Province TO
22,357 residents
A town on the Dora Baltea at the mouth of the Aosta Valley and the main centre of the Canavese.
Mondovì
Province CN
22,040 residents
A town split between an upper town on a ridge, called Piazza, and a lower commercial quarter on the Ellero, called Breo, linked by a funicular.
Savigliano
Province CN
21,609 residents
A town on the Cuneo plain roughly 50 kilometres south of Turin, with a long industrial record in rolling stock: the works that became Fiat Ferroviaria and now Alstom still build trains here.
Borgomanero
Province NO
21,188 residents
A town in the province of Novara between Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore, laid out as a medieval planned settlement with two main streets crossing at the centre.
Acqui Terme
Province AL
18,967 residents
A spa town of the Alessandria province built on hot sulphurous springs that the Romans exploited as Aquae Statiellae.
Valenza
Province AL
18,025 residents
A town on the Po in the Alessandria province and the centre of Italian fine jewellery manufacturing, where several hundred workshops and firms work gold for major international brands.
Domodossola
Province VB
17,709 residents
The main town of the Ossola valleys, at the foot of the Alps on the Toce plain a few kilometres from the Swiss border.
Saluzzo
Province CN
17,470 residents
A hill town in the Cuneo province, capital of an independent marquisate from 1142 until 1548 before Savoy absorbed it in 1601.
Giaveno
Province TO
16,223 residents
A town of the Val Sangone about 30 kilometres west of Turin, where the valley opens onto the plain.
Omegna
Province VB
14,294 residents
A town at the northern tip of Lake Orta, where the Nigoglia stream runs out of the lake northwards.
Arona
Province NO
13,694 residents
A lakeside town at the southern end of Lake Maggiore and a rail junction on the Milan to Switzerland line.
Borgo San Dalmazzo
Province CN
12,510 residents
A town at the junction of the Stura, Gesso and Vermenagna valleys, eight kilometres from Cuneo, where the plain meets the Maritime Alps.
Avigliana
Province TO
12,370 residents
A town about 25 kilometres west of Turin at the mouth of the Susa valley, with a well preserved medieval core and two small glacial lakes below it.
Ovada
Province AL
10,779 residents
A town at the confluence of the Orba and the Stura di Ovada, where the Po plain meets the Ligurian Apennines, which makes it a natural stop between Piedmont and the Ligurian coast.
Nizza Monferrato
Province AT
10,101 residents
A market town in the Asti hills and the reference point for Nizza DOCG, a Barbera-based red made here and in seventeen surrounding communes.
Canelli
Province AT
10,031 residents
A wine town in the Asti hills built on sparkling wine: the modern Italian spumante industry effectively started here, and the large houses still cut kilometres of tunnels into the hillside beneath the streets.
Cherasco
Province CN
9,465 residents
A town on a plateau where the Tanaro and Stura meet, laid out on a Roman-style grid of straight streets rather than the winding plan of most Piedmontese hill towns.
Varallo
Province VC
6,912 residents
The main town of the Valsesia, on the Sesia river in the province of Vercelli, below the Monte Rosa massif.
Susa
Province TO
5,911 residents
A town of Roman origin at the foot of the Alps in the Val di Susa, on the route between Italy and France over the Moncenisio and Monginevro passes.
Cannobio
Province VB
5,003 residents
The northernmost Italian town on Lake Maggiore's Piedmontese shore, a few kilometres from the Swiss border at the mouth of the Val Cannobina.
Stresa
Province VB
4,599 residents
A resort town on the west shore of Lake Maggiore, opposite the Borromean Islands, which are the main reason to come.
Neive
Province CN
3,305 residents
A hill village in the Barbaresco zone with a well preserved medieval upper town of brick lanes and 18th-century palazzi.
Bardonecchia
Province TO
3,028 residents
The westernmost comune in Italy, at about 1,300 metres in the upper Susa valley where four side valleys meet, 90 kilometres from Turin.
Moncalvo
Province AT
2,730 residents
A hill town in the Monferrato, historically the first capital of the marquisate, and often described locally as the smallest place in Italy holding city status.
La Morra
Province CN
2,660 residents
A hill town at 513 metres, the highest of the Barolo communes, with around seventy wine producers in its territory.
Limone Piemonte
Province CN
1,351 residents
A town at around 1,000 metres in the Vermenagna valley in the Maritime Alps, about 20 kilometres south of Cuneo and close to the French border at the Colle di Tenda.
Orta San Giulio
Province NO
1,047 residents
A small village on a promontory on the east shore of Lake Orta, the smallest of the major northern lakes, facing an island 400 metres offshore.
Sestriere
Province TO
929 residents
A purpose-built ski resort at 2,035 metres on the pass between the Val Chisone and Val Susa, created by Fiat's Giovanni Agnelli in the 1930s.
Barolo
Province CN
638 residents
A village of roughly 700 people in the Langhe, surrounded by the Nebbiolo vineyards that give the wine its name.
Barbaresco
Province CN
594 residents
A village of under 600 people on a ridge above the Tanaro, and the centre of the Barbaresco DOCG, a Nebbiolo wine made here and in neighbouring Neive and Treiso.