Savigliano
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Savigliano is a commune of Piedmont, Italy, in the Province of Cuneo, 32 miles south of Turin by rail, 1053 feet above sea-level. It has a population of 19,893.
It has important ironworks, foundries, locomotive works and silk manufactures, as well as sugar factories, printing works and cocoon-raising establishments. It retains some traces of its ancient walls, demolished in 1707, and has a fine collegiate church (S. Andrea, in its present form comparatively modern), and a triumphal arch erected in honour of the marriage of Charles Emmanuel I with Infanta Catherine of Austrian Spain.
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