Savigliano (; ; ; ) is a (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo, in the Northern Italian region of Piedmont, about 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.
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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 Sara Curtis (born 2006), swimmer Santorre di Santarosa, an Italian Philhellene Luca Filippi, racing driver Giovanni Schiaparelli, astronomer
Twin towns Pylos, Greece, since 1962 Mormanno, Italy, since 1962 Villa María, Argentina, since 2000
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