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Yet another panorama taken from the cliff which has point 1024.4 on it. I go there quite regularly, since it's such a good viewpoint - and my mobile phone gets a signal there. This panorama has a few funny-looking bits which are due to the fact that it's a synopsis of a full 360° panorama taken with a fisheye, and many more images taken with a longer lens to capture more detail. The 360° pano is nice in itself, but there are bushes and trees hiding parts of the landscape which I wanted to show on the final image as well. Since I did not have a pole, I took the longer-lens images from slightly different positions (in front of the obstacles) - the content is far enough away, so parallax isn't an issue. When I combined the fisheye and the tele images I could 'virtually prune' the shrubbery. While this is a bit of a cheat photographically, it's certainly more environmentally friendly than using a saw ;)
The name Piedmont comes from medieval Latin Pedemontium, i. e. "ad pedem montium", meaning "at the foot of the mountains": Piedmont, whose capital is Turin, is surrounded on three sides by the Alps, including Monviso, where Po river rises, and Monte Rosa. It borders France, Switzerland and the Italian regions of Aosta Valley, Lombardy, Liguria and Emilia Romagna. Its history was linked for centuries to Savoy dynasty: since 1046 Piedmont was part of County of Savoy, raised to Duchy of Savoy in 1416, evolved in the eighteenth century into the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. The role of Piedmont for Italy's unification is comparable to the role of Prussia for Germany and his army was the engine of the unification process, ended with the creation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. The presence of Savoy in its territory bequeathed a large number of castles and residences. Lowland Piedmont is a fertile agricultural region, producing wheat, rice and maize and is one of the great winegrowing areas in Italy. The region contains major industrial centres: FIAT automobile plants in Turin, Ferrero's chocolate factories in Alba, tissue and silk manufactories in Biella, in Ivrea Olivetti was an important technology center, publishing in Turin and Novara.
