THE CHIERI ROUTE
	Important sites in Piedmont
	Red Spinning Mill
	Biella Documentation Centre
	Former Trombetta Factory
	Borsalino Hat Museum
	Scassa Tapestry Museum & Workshop
	'Palio di Asti'
	Ecomuseo Feltrificio Crumière
	Museum of Industrial Activities
	Valdese Costumes Museums' Web
	Hemp Museum
	IPCA 'Requalification'
	Leuman Village
	The Silk Trail

	Textile Contact Point
	Monument
	Textile event
	Site on the route
		Cultural heritage
		Textile production
		Education/research

FACTS ON THE REGION Piedmont Italian name: Piemonte Area: 25,399 sqkm, 8 admin. districts Capital: Torino Membership: Assembly of European Regions (AER), Working Community of the Western Alps (COTRAO), Association of Elected Members of Mountain Areas (AEM), Italian Section of European Municipalities and Regions CERM) Partnership: Galicia/E, Valais/CH, Varsinais-Suomi/FIN, Timis/RO, Zenica and Doboj/BIH Population: 4,302,565

MORE INFORMATION Piedmont - Britannica.com (facts in general) http://www.mi.cnr.it/WOI/deagosti/regions/piemonte.html (information on Piedmont) http://www.itwg.com/rg-piemo.asp (tourist information on Piedmont) http://www.regione.piemonte.it

The routes are presented in English; the description of the stations is also in other languages

Die Hauptsprache der Routen ist englisch; Beschreibungen der einzelnen Stationen sind auch in deutsch

La langue dominante est l'anglais; la description de chaque station est en francais aussi