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The Province of Torino (Turin in the Piedmont Province and, in Arpit Province de Turin, de Turin Province in Occitan) is a province of Piedmont's 2.3 million inhabitants. It covers an area of 6,829 km ² and includes 315 municipalities. It is one of the largest province of Italy in addition to being the province with the highest number of municipalities by the Province of Cuneo followed with 250. It is bordered to the north of Valle d'Aosta, on the east by the provinces of Biella, Vercelli, Alessandria and Asti, south of the province of Cuneo, in the west of France (departments of Savoie and Rhone-Alpes Hautes-Alpes in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur).

 Territory

In 1945 they were re-aggregated the 113 municipalities that had been detached Canavese in 1927 (including the territories of the Valle Orco, Val Soana and the district of Ivrea to Carema) to erect the new province of Aosta. These territories Canavese, forming the ancient district of Ivrea, Aosta, where they were attributed to Mussolini, forming the new province of Aosta, that this would lose its character as a typical alpine and French, diluting it with the territories Canavese, which was for the other component cost more alive. With the abolition of the province of Aosta (1945), Ivrea and the Canavese were reinstated in the Province of Turin and Piedmont. The Province of Turin has the largest number of municipalities in Italy: it has 315. It is the fourth most populated province of Italy (after Milan, Rome and Naples). It is the fourth province to extension (after Bolzano, Cuneo and Foggia).

Honours

Gold Medal for Civil Merit
"The provincial community in Turin, in his deep faith in an Italy free and democratic, upset by the ferocious reprisals occupant nazi-fascist, with fierce demeanor, giving men the army and partisan forces, became the protagonist of fierce resistance, enduring the loss of a large number of its best sons and the destruction of a significant part of its monuments and buildings. With the return of peace, to give a shining example of human generosity and expressing high civic virtues, it faced the difficult task of reconstruction in order to deliver to the rebirth of the Nation reacquired the values of freedom and justice. "

Geography

The province is composed of a mountainous area to the west and north along the border with France and the Aosta Valley and part flat or hilly in the south and east. The mountainous home of the Hautes Alpes, the Alps and Graie, a much lesser extent, of the Pennine Alps. It is mainly crossed by the river Po and its many tributaries of the left. The Po, which was founded in Cuneo Province, enters the Province of Turin coming from the south and goes up in Turin. After the capital, take a run to the east and heads for the Province of Vercelli. Among the tributaries of the left are mentioned, listed in the order in which feed the river Po, the Pellice (and its tributary the Chisone), the Chisola the Sangone, Dora Riparia, Stura di Lanzo, the Malone 's Orco and Dora Baltea. As the only right tributary of the Banna remembers.

Man Geography

The mountainous part of the province, west and north, was divided in 13 mountain communities, and currently, following the reform of the mountain communities implemented by the Piedmont Region November 3, 2008, the number of mountain communities in the Province of Turin is down to six. These mountain communities are designed to preserve the riches of the mountain territory.

Before the reform were:

* Mountain Community Pellice
* Mountain Community Chisone and Germanasca
* Mountain Community Pinerolese Pedemontano
* Mountain Valley Community Sangone
* Lower Mountain Community Valle di Susa and Val Cenischia
* Mountain Community Alta Valle di Susa
* Mountain Community Val and Ceronda Casternone
* Mountain Community Valli di Lanzo
* South Mountain Community Canavese
* Community Montana Valli Orco and Soana
* Sacred Valley Mountain Community
* Mountain Valley Community Chiusella
* Mountain Community Baltea Canavesana

The mountain communities that have arisen as a result of the reform are:

* Mountain Community Chiusella Valley, Sacred Valley and Baltea Canavesana
* South Mountain Community Canavese
* Community Montana Valli Orco and Soana
* Mountain Community Valli di Lanzo, and Ceronda Casternone
* Community and Val Susa Valley Mountain Sangone
* Mountain Community Chisone and Germanasca Pellice and Pinerolese Pedemontano

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