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Pietra Alta
The Pietra Alta (in piedmontese: ''Pera Aota'' or ''Peraota'', meaning ''High Stone'') is a glacial erratic in the comune of Caselette ( TO, Italy), relevant for its size and its isolated location. Features The erratic is a massive boulder with a pyramidal shape, emerging some 10 metres from the ground level and with a circumference of about 50 metres. Its elevation is 368 MSL. It stands in a woody and almost plain spot close to the border between Caselette and Alpignano, not faraway from the small Lake of Caselette. The place is still of a good environmental quality, although almost encircled by industrial and residential areas. Geology The Pietra Alta belongs to the ''Morainic amphitheater of Rivoli-Avigliana'', and in particular to the moraine left by the Riss glaciation. It was transported to its present location by the hudge glacier which occupied the Susa Valley. Its height on the ground level, remarkable if compared to other glacial erratics of Piedmont, can be expl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piedmontese
Piedmontese (; autonym: or , in it, piemontese) is a language spoken by some 2,000,000 people mostly in Piedmont, northwestern region of Italy. Although considered by most linguists a separate language, in Italy it is often mistakenly regarded as an Italian dialect. It is linguistically included in the Gallo-Italic languages group of Northern Italy (with Lombard, Emilian, Ligurian and Romagnolo), which would make it part of the wider western group of Romance languages, which also includes French, Occitan, and Catalan. It is spoken in the core of Piedmont, in northwestern Liguria, near Savona and in Lombardy (some municipalities in the westernmost part of Lomellina near Pavia). It has some support from the Piedmont regional government but is considered a dialect rather than a separate language by the Italian central government. Due to the Italian diaspora Piedmontese has spread in the Argentinian Pampas, where many immigrants from Piedmont settled. The Piedmontese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
