Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Geography of Piedmont is that of a territory predominantly mountainous, 43.3%, but with extensive areas of hills which represent 30.3% of the territory, and of plains (26.4%). To the north and to the west Piedmont is surrounded by the Alps, to the south by the Apennines, and to the east by the Po plain.
Piedmont is surrounded on three sides by the Alps, including Monviso, where the river Po rises, and Monte Rosa. It borders France (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), Switzerland (Ticino and Valais), and the Italian regions of Lombardy, Liguria, Aosta Valley, and for a very small part with Emilia Romagna. The geography of ...
Piedmont geography stubs (8 C, 94 P) Pages in category "Geography of Piedmont" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Pages in category "Landforms of Piedmont" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Colle Fauniera; P.
Foothills or piedmont are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area. They are a transition zone between plains and low relief hills and the adjacent topographically higher mountains , hills, and uplands. [ 1 ]
The mountain is the highest peak of Cottian Alps outside the Monviso area.. In the French subdivision of Western Alps it belongs to the Massif du Mont-Cenis.. Administratively the mountain is divided between the commune of Avrieux (F - north-west and north-east faces) and the comune of Bardonecchia (I - southern face).
Col de Clapier or Col du Clapier (French Col Clapier or Col de Savine, Italian Colle Clapier) is a 2,477-metre-high (8,127 ft) mountain pass over the mountain massif Mont Cenis in the Cottian Alps and Graian Alps between Savoy in France and Piedmont in Italy. The bridle path goes from Bramans (1220 m) to Susa (503 m). There is no firm road.
After the treaty annexing Nice and Savoy to France, signed in Turin in March 1860 (Treaty of Turin), the north-western slopes of the range became part of the French republic. [ 4 ] Two eastern valleys of the Cottian Alps ( Pellice and Germanasca ) have been for centuries a kind of sanctuary for the Waldensians , a Christian movement that was ...