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The metropolitan area has a total population of 1,646,064 estimated by the OECD and an area of 1,127 km 2, giving a density of 1,461 people per square kilometre. [1] It is the fourth most populous metropolitan area in Italy. 51% of the population lives within the city of Turin.
IGC maps display. IGC was established by Giuseppe Candeletti in 1952. [3] Its first products were some very detailed maps of Turin and the Guida Toponomastica di Torino (Toponomastic guide of Turin). The following year IGC published an 'Atlante di Milano (Atlas of Milan) at scale of 1:5,000 . [4]
Along with Milan, Genoa, and La Spezia, Turin was one of Italy's four cities that experienced area bombing by the RAF; the heaviest raid took place on 13 July 1943, when 295 bombers dropped 763 tons of bombs, killing 792 people. [23] Overall, these raids killed 2,069 inhabitants of Turin, and destroyed or damaged 54% of all buildings in the city.
It has an area of 6,827 km 2 (2,636 sq mi), [3] and a total population of 2,211,114. There are 312 comuni (sg.: comune) in the metropolitan area [4] – the most of any province or metropolitan city in Italy. The province with the second highest number of comuni (municipalities) is Cuneo with 250.
In pre-Roman times, the area around modern-day Lingotto was settled by the Celtic population of the Ligoni. [1]Lingotto was established around the 15th century as a rural latifundium between Turin and Moncalieri, taking its name from the agricultural farmhouse that stood along the ancient road connecting Grugliasco to Moncalieri, the current Via Passo Buole.
In the sixteenth century, further intervention was undertaken with the creation of a net of irrigation canals. During the nineteenth century, the presence of drainage channels and large open spaces in the area attracted many families of washers, an activity that characterises the suburbs of Turin. The first church in Mappano was built in 1850. [2]
Nichelino (Piedmontese: Ël Niclin) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 8 kilometres (5 miles) southwest of Turin. Santissima Trinità Church. Nichelino borders the following municipalities: Turin, Orbassano, Beinasco, Moncalieri, Candiolo, and Vinovo.
A bright example of a spirit of sacrifice and a deep faith in a free and democratic Italy". City planning The west gate of Turin After World War II, Grugliasco est, bordering the municipality of Turin, was interested with the adjacent municipality of Collegno to the north, by the project of Corso Marche, a new boulevard that was to cross the ...
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