Maps, Guides for Turin, Italian Regions of Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta

Description

Includes an official map & guide for Turin (Torino in Italian), the capital and largest city in the Piedmont region, in northwestern Italy (Piemonte in Italian) (with 850,000 in the city proper, 2.2 million in the metro area) (from Regione Piemonte, circa 1995); and an excellent vintage terrain & transport map for Piedmont, the surrounding region in the northwest corner of Italy, north of Liguria (the coastal region surrounding Genoa) and west of Lombardy (home to Milan, Lake Como and the Alps foothills), as well as Valle d’Aosta (Valley of Aosta in English), a mountainous valley in the extreme northwest pocket of Italy, nestled between Switzerland and the French Alps, an area with its own language (Valdôtain, a dialect of Franco-Provençal), a beautiful high mountain zone where French is also widely spoken (from Artistic Cartografico, circa 1975).