Province CN
Savigliano, CN
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. The centre is a compact arcaded grid around one large square, and the town holds Piedmont's main railway museum.
Sights
- Piazza Santarosa, the arcaded main square with a 13th-century civic tower
- The triumphal arch of 1585, raised for the marriage of Charles Emmanuel I to Catherine of Austria
- Palazzo Taffini d'Acceglio, a noble palace with a hall frescoed after 1637, now home to the Muses academy of aromatic essences
- Museo Ferroviario Piemontese, with more than seventy restored locomotives and carriages
- Teatro Milanollo of 1834 to 1836, neoclassical, with an oval auditorium
- Museo Civico Antonino Olmo and the Gipsoteca Davide Calandra, in a former Franciscan convent
Things to do
- Give the railway museum real time, it is the reason many people come
- Walk the arcades of the centre, which connect most of the sights under cover
- Visit the Muses garden and essence workshops as an alternative to church-visiting
Annual events
March
Fiera Nazionale della Meccanizzazione Agricola
National agricultural machinery fair, past its fortieth edition.
October, even years
Festa del Pane
Bakers work in the squares with tastings and demonstrations. This is held every two years, not annually.
When to visit
March if you want the fair and the town at full activity, otherwise spring or early autumn.
