Piscina 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 in the
Italian
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region
Piedmont
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, located about 25 km southwest of
Turin
Turin ( , 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 from 1861 to 1865. The ...
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Piscina borders the following municipalities:
Cumiana
Cumiana is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italy, Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin.
Cumiana borders the following municipalities: Giaveno, Trana, Piossasco, Pinasca, Volvera, Pinerolo, ...
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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 b ...
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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 ...
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Airasca
Airasca (Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ''Airasca'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italy, Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin.
Airasca borders the following municipalities: Cumia ...
, and
Scalenghe
Scalenghe is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont, about southwest of Turin.
Scalenghe borders the following municipalities: None, Pinerolo, Airasca, Piscina, Castagnole Piemonte, Buri ...
. Part of the municipal territory was involved in the
Battle of Marsaglia in 1693.
Main sights
*Baroque parish church of St. Gratus (18th century), designed by Giuseppe Gerolamo Buniva
*Communal Wing (1699)
*Chapel of St. Roch (16th century)
*Museum of Peasant Art
Twin towns
*
Suardi, Argentina, since 2006
See also
*
Tavernette
References
Cities and towns in Piedmont
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