Tavernette is a '' frazione'' ( neighbourhood) of Cumiana, in Piedmont, northern Italy. Its name comes from the latin ''tabernae'' (in English ''tavern'' or ''country pub'').

Geography

It is a borough located in the

Chisola Chisola is a torrent (stream), torrent in Piedmont, north-western Italy. Geography Chisola source is at c. 1,250 m, at the merge of two separante torrent-like branches coming from Monte Tre Denti (1,445 m) and Monte Brunello/Monte Fre ...

Valley, in the easternmost part of Cottian Alps, some kilometers south-east from the centre of Cumiana. The

Monte Tre Denti Monte Tre Denti (Italian: ''Mount Three Teeth'') is peak in the Cottian Alps, Metropolitan City of Turin in Piedmont, north-western Italy. It has an elevation of and is located between the comuni of Cumiana and Cantalupa. Together with the nearb ...

and

Monte Freidour Monte Freidour is a mountain in the Cottian Alps, Metropolitan City of Turin in Piedmont, north-western Italy. It has an elevation of 1.451 m, with a secondary summit at , and is composed of gneiss cliffs overlooking the town of Cumiana. Histo ...

peaks are located nearby.

History

Since 1928 Tavernette was a separate comune (municipality); before 1801 it also encompassed the present-day municipality of Piscina, located in the Po plain.''Una briciola di ... storia...'', Piscina municipality web sit
http://www.comune.piscina.to.it/articles.asp?id=2
(accessed on February 2013)

References

{{authority control Frazioni of the Province of Turin Former municipalities of the Province of Turin Cumiana