CUNEO

:''This article is about the town in Italy. For the 20th Century English Painter see Terence Cuneo''
'Cuneo' ('Coni' in Piedmontese), with a population of c. 55,000 inhabitants, is the capital of the Piedmontese Province of Cuneo, the largest of Italy’s provinces. It is located at the foot of the Maritime Alps, on the Stura di Demonte river where it emerges from the Valle Stura, and neighbours the communes of Boves, Cervasca, Vignolo, Beinette, Peveragno, Castelletto Stura, Caraglio and Tarantasca.

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Notable Cuneesi

Trivia

External links

Notable Cuneesi

★ Annibale Santorre di Rossi de Pomarolo, Count of Santarosa (1783–1825), early Risorgimento leader.

★ Franco Andrea Bonelli (1784–1830), ornithologist, entomologist and collector.

★ Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), mathematician.

★ Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892–1965), composer.

★ Nuto Revelli (1919–2004), partisan and writer.[1]

★ Michele Ferrero (born 1927), chocolate magnate and owner of Ferrero SpA (Nutella, Mon Chéri, Ferrero Rocher, Tic Tacs).

★ Alviero Martini (born c.1940), fashion designer.

★ Cesare Damiano (born 1948), politician.

★ Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born 1950), mathematician, logician and aficionado of the history of science.

★ Livia Turco (born 1955), politician.

Trivia

★ Cuneo's speciality is "Cuneesi al rhum", chocolates with a unique rum-based filling. The most famous brand is Arione.

External links

★ Cuneo homepage

★ ItalianVisits.com, ''Cuneo''

★ Giornale di informazione della Provincia di Cuneo

★ Information on Cuneo

★ Parco Fluviale Gesso e Stura