Cuneo, city (1991 pop. 55,794), capital of Cuneo prov., Piedmont, NW Italy, on the Stura River, near the Maritime Alps. It is an agricultural and light industrial center and a transportation junction. Manufactures include processed food, metals, beer, and plastics. Silkworms are raised. A possession of the house of Savoy after 1382, Cuneo endured numerous sieges (especially in 1799, when it fell to Austrian and Russian forces).

Cuneo (Coni in Piedmontese), with a population of c. 55,000 inhabitants, is the capital of the Piedmontese Province of Cuneo, the third largest of Italy’s provinces by area. It is located at the foot of the Maritime Alps, on the Stura di Demonte river where it emerges from the Valle Stura, and neighbours the communes of Boves, Cervasca, Vignolo, Beinette, Peveragno, Castelletto Stura, Caraglio and Tarantasca.

Lannutti logistics and transport is based in Cuneo

Notable Cuneesi

• Annibale Santorre di Rossi de Pomarolo, Count of Santarosa (1783–1825), early Risorgimento leader.
• Franco Andrea Bonelli (1784–1830), ornithologist, entomologist and collector.
• Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), mathematician.
• Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892–1965), composer.
• Nuto Revelli (1919–2004), partisan and writer.
• Michele Ferrero (born 1927), chocolate magnate and owner of Ferrero SpA (Nutella, Mon Chéri, Ferrero Rocher, Tic Tacs).
• Alviero Martini (born c.1940), fashion designer.
• Cesare Damiano (born 1948), politician.
• Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born 1950), mathematician, logician and aficionado of the history of science.
• Livia Turco (born 1955), politician.

Trivia

• Cuneo's speciality is "Cuneesi al rhum", chocolates with a unique rum-based filling. The most famous brand is Arione.

External links

• Cuneo homepage
• Giornale di informazione della Provincia di Cuneo
• Parco Fluviale Gesso e Stura