River Bend Near Orfalecchio
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Kay F. Jahnke
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River Bend Near OrfalecchioThe World > Europe > Italy > Piemonte |
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Near Alpe Orfalecchio, the San Bernardino loops around a prominent cliff. The riverbed is strewn with house-size rocks, and there are also some smoothed rock terraces like the one I'm standing on.
At the river bend near Orfalecchio the trail passes on the riverbank, so it's easy to get down to the...
The Riale Ancino disgorges into San Bernardino where it does a spectacular loop around a prominent cl...
This image was taken at pretty much the same spot as another one I took in summer. Instead of lush gr...
Ner the mouth of Val Foiera, the river can be forded to the left bank, where a little-used trail runs...
You might say I'm repeating myself, but I thought this pre-springtime image shows a different aspect ...
The old mulattiera from Corte Bue to Orfalecchio passes over this ridge, and this image is taken from...
On the way from Corte Bue to Orfalecchio, the old mulattiera passes several cliffs which offer nice v...
The name Piedmont comes from medieval Latin Pedemontium, i. e. "ad pedem montium", meaning "at the foot of the mountains": Piedmont, whose capital is Turin, is surrounded on three sides by the Alps, including Monviso, where Po river rises, and Monte Rosa. It borders France, Switzerland and the Italian regions of Aosta Valley, Lombardy, Liguria and Emilia Romagna.
Its history was linked for centuries to Savoy dynasty: since 1046 Piedmont was part of County of Savoy, raised to Duchy of Savoy in 1416, evolved in the eighteenth century into the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. The role of Piedmont for Italy's unification is comparable to the role of Prussia for Germany and his army was the engine of the unification process, ended with the creation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. The presence of Savoy in its territory bequeathed a large number of castles and residences.
Lowland Piedmont is a fertile agricultural region, producing wheat, rice and maize and is one of the great winegrowing areas in Italy. The region contains major industrial centres: FIAT automobile plants in Turin, Ferrero's chocolate factories in Alba, tissue and silk manufactories in Biella, in Ivrea Olivetti was an important technology center, publishing in Turin and Novara.
