Verzuolo
Verzuolo is a comune in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin and about north of Cuneo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 6,379 and an area of.
The municipality of Verzuolo contains the frazioni Falicetto, Villanovetta, Papò, Chiamina, S. Bernardo, and Pomerolo.
Verzuolo borders the following municipalities: Costigliole Saluzzo, Lagnasco, Manta, Pagno, Piasco, Savigliano, Villafalletto.
Notable people
People born in Verzuolo, or with close links to it, have included:- Giuseppe Siccardi was an Italian jurist and politician.
- Alessandra Boarelli was an Italian mountaineer and, in 1864, became the first woman to summit Monviso.
- Cesare Billia was an Italian soldier, 63rd Infantry Regiment officer and recipient of a gold medal and a silver medal for military valor.
- Giovanni Vincenzo Cima was an Italian journalist, world-renowned stenographer and creator of his own shorthand system.
- Cesare Segre is an Italian philologist, semiotician and literary critic of Jewish descent, currently the Director of the Texts and Textual Traditions Research Centre of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Pavia.
- Flavio Briatore is a financier, former executive of the Benetton Group, team principal for the Benetton and Renault Formula One teams, and chairman of Queens Park Rangers F.C.
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