title: Savigliano
text: Savigliano () is a  of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the Province of Cuneo, 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.
  
  Main sights 
  
  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
  Giovanni Schiaparelli, astronomer
  Santorre di Santarosa, an Italian Philhellene
  Luca Filippi, racing driver
  
  Twin towns 
    Pylos, Greece, since 1962
    Mormanno, Italy, since 1962
   Villa María, Argentina, since 2000
  
  References
  
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  Cities and towns in Piedmont