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PIEDMONT
iedmont with its 160.000 hectares of
protected areas, offers the possibility
of discovering unique landscapes. It is
a region characterized half by imposing
mountain chains with internationally famous ski re-
sorts and half by hills and plains with the principal
rice field of Europe. Past and future, art and culture
of food,   craftsmanship and research,   all blend to-
gether in a region with a productive leap forward,  at-
tentive to innovation and to new technology and, at
the same time, to its extraordinary natural and land-
scape wealth. A capacity to renew itself and to tran-
sform crises into occasions for development permits
Piedmont today to position itself as the nerve center
of innovation and new technology, not only in Italy
but in all Europe. Piedmont has always been the ga-
teway towards the rest of Europe; its cultural heritage
is formed by historic houses and gardens, castles, for-
ts, churches, abbeys and more than 400 museums,
guaranteeing a complete and suggestive proposal
for art lovers, embracing exhibition centers which
range from archeology to contemporary art, from
natural sciences to cinema,   from decorative arts to
anthropology. The unique beauty of its lakes and ci-
ties, above all that of the regional capital Turin, makes
Piedmont one of the most beautiful and suggestive
regions of the “Bel Paese”.