Savigliano is a comune of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the Province of Cuneo, c. 50 kilometers south of Turin by rail.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, and a triumphal arch erected in honour of the marriage of Charles Emmanuel I with Infanta Catherine of Austrian Spain.Savigliano is the hometown of Giovanni Schiaparelli, who discovered the canali of Mars.Savigliano is also the hometown of Santorre di Santarosa,an Italian Philhellene killed by Turks in Pylos, Greece 1825.
