Piedmont Travel tourism

The Piedmont is an Italian region of north-western town Turin.
It is bordered to the west by France (Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur), north-west by the Valle d'Aosta to the north with Switzerland (cantons of Valais and Ticino), east to the south to Lombardy east to Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the south.
The territory of the region is mostly mountainous (as much as 43.3% of the region).
The main mountain ranges are the Alps, which surround the region to the west and the Apennines located on the border with Liguria and Emilia-Romagna.
The Po River runs through the eponymous plains.
The hilly areas are the main Canavese (north-west), the Langhe and Roero (south-west) and Monferrato (south).
There are numerous mountain lakes of glacial origin.
Lake Maggiore, one of the largest lakes in Italy, marks the boundary with Lombardy in the east, along with his emissary, the river Ticino.
The mountains of Piedmont has an imposing appearance and rugged: in fact the top above ten thousand feet down quickly towards the plain.
Hence the name of the region which means the foot of the mountains.
Below the rocks and pastures are large extensions of forests: the conifers are less common than in other sections of the Alps and the place to leave early beech and chestnut trees.
In the valleys there are footprints of human activity and are important routes of international road and railway communication.
In the valleys are smaller dams, hydroelectric and tourist centers.
The southern hills of the Langhe and Monferrato are formed by ancient marine sediments and are not very resistant to water, you dig a maze of furrows and valleys.
The well-exposed slopes are planted with vines, cereals and fodder as well as hazelnut orchards and livestock, which was once very popular, does not progress.
Between these hills and the Alps, a plateau rich in water comes to Cuneo, more than five hundred feet high: here the fields are cultivated mainly to grass and cereals.
In Turin, the landscape is typical of industrial development.
Entirely the work of man and the result of a secular work is the landscape of rice fields in the plains of the provinces of Vercelli and Novara.
The rice alternating with other cereal and fodder plantations of poplars and fields are interspersed.