Pinasca is a ''
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...
'' (municipality) in the
Metropolitan City of Turin
The Metropolitan City of Turin ( it, Città metropolitana di Torino, Piedmontese: ''Sità metropolitan-a 'd Turin'') is a metropolitan city in the Piedmont region, Italy. Its capital is the city of Turin. It replaced the Province of Turin and co ...
in the
Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
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region
Piedmont
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, located about southwest of
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
in the
Val Chisone
The Val Chisone is one of the Occitan valleys of western Piedmont, situated in the Cottian Alps in the Metropolitan City of Turin in north-west Italy.
Geography
Traditionally, the valley's entrances are considered the towns of Pinerolo and Sestr ...
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Pinasca borders the following municipalities:
Giaveno
Giaveno is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about west of Turin.
History
Giaveno has very ancient origins; some local historians trace the first settlement back to Roman time ...
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Perosa Argentina
Perosa Argentina (French: Pérouse) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northwest of Turin, in the val Chisone.
Perosa Argentina borders the following municipalities: Coa ...
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Cumiana
Cumiana is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin.
Cumiana borders the following municipalities: Giaveno, Trana, Piossasco, Pinasca, Volvera, Pinerolo, Frossa ...
,
Pinerolo
Pinerolo (; pms, Pinareul ; french: Pignerol; oc, Pineròl) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, northwestern Italy, southwest of Turin on the river Chisone. The Lemina torrent has its source at the boundary be ...
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Frossasco
Frossasco is a ''commune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 30 km south west of Turin.
History
Even if the Celts were the inhabit the area of Frossasco. After the fall of the We ...
,
San Pietro Val Lemina San Pietro Val Lemina (French: Saint-Pierre) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Turin, part of the Piedmont region, northern Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a coun ...
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Inverso Pinasca
Inverso Pinasca (Piedmontese: ''L'Invers ëd Pinasca''; oc, L'Ënvers de Pinacha, French: L'Envers de Pinache) is a village and ''comune'' (municipality) with about 600 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, ...
, and
Villar Perosa
Villar Perosa ( Occitan ''Lhi Vialars''; French: ''Grand-Villars'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin.
Villar Perosa borders the following municipal ...
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Twin towns
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Wiernsheim
Wiernsheim is a municipality in the Enz district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
History
Wiernsheim became a possession of Maulbronn Monastery in 1259 and was governed by the monastery's district office until 1806. When Maulbronn became a posse ...
, Germany (1982)
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Piedmont
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