Geologically, the region lies mostly within the Colorado Piedmont, in the valley of the South Platte and Arkansas rivers on the east side of the Rockies.

Since 2006, the Piedmont region has benefited from the start of the Slow Food movement and Terra Madre, events that highlighted the rich agricultural and viticultural value of the Po valley and northern Italy.

In its valley along the foothills in Colorado, it has permitted agriculture in an area of the Colorado Piedmont and Great Plains that is otherwise arid.

The Col de Largentière historically linked Lyon with Italy ; it offered an easy route between Piedmont and the outlying valley of Barcelonnette, which came into Savoyard possession when Amadeus or his heir transferred it from the County of Provence to the County of Nice.

Major east-west roads cross the valley as well, providing access to the Piedmont and the Allegheny Mountains.

Buttigliera Alta is a town and comune of approximately 6, 500 inhabitants, located about 25 km from Turin in the Susa valley in Piedmont, northern Italy.

During the 1750s the stream of migrants traveling south through the valley and into the Carolina Piedmont grew into a flood.

The Taurini were an ancient Celto-Ligurian Alpine people, who occupied the upper valley of the river Po, in the centre of modern Piedmont.

* Fonduta: Fontina, milk, eggs and truffles, known as Fonduta valdostana in the Aosta valley and Fonduta piemontese in Piedmont, both in northern Italy.

The four-lane freeway takes a largely straight path as it runs through a scenic valley, part of which spans between Piedmont and Oakland's Montclair Village.

Piedmont is located part of an area referred to as the Red Valley, or Race Track, a rock layer in the Spearfish Formation which forms a valley circling the Black Hills.

Col Agnel () is a mountain pass in the Cottian Alps, west of Monte Viso between France and Italy which links the Queyras valley ( Hautes-Alpes ) with Pontechianale in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont.

Under its earlier name, Col de l ' Argentière it has historically linked Lyons with Italy ; the Col de l ' Argentière was in the possession of the house of Savoy from 1388 to 1713, offering an easy route between Piedmont and its outlying valley of Barcelonnette, which came into Savoyard possession in 1388, when Amadeus VI of Savoy purchased it for the sum of 60, 000 ecus, it was of such strategic and commercial importance.

Crossing the Virginia Piedmont, it arrived in Winchester, near the northern end of the valley.

The valley of the North Fork was historically used a trail route between the Colorado Piedmont and the Laramie Plains, including the Cherokee Trail and the Overland Trail.

Alagna Valsesia ( Walser German: Im Land, Piedmontese: Alagna, Valsesiano: Lagna ) is a comune and small village high in the Valsesia alpine valley in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy.

* Susa Valley, an Italian valley in the Piedmont region

It is followed by Cain Street and Piedmont Avenue, NE ; ;

The Piedmont Plateau is a lowland worn down by erosion on hard crystalline rocks, then uplifted to form a plateau.

In the Appalachian Valley region the Coosa River is the principal river ; and in the Piedmont Plateau, the Tallapoosa River.

It is located in the southern French Alps, at the crossroads between Provence, Piedmont and the Dauphiné, and is the largest town in the Ubaye Valley.

The northernmost part of the state is part of the Appalachian Piedmont with hills and rolling surfaces.

They sent the boy to Turin, the capital of Savoy ( which included Piedmont, in what is now Italy ), to complete his conversion.

* In Italy, Occitan is also spoken in the Occitan Valleys ( Alps ) in Piedmont and Liguria.

Fresh egg pasta is well known in the Piedmont area near the border of France.

Piedmont (, ; Piedmontese and ; ) is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

The capital of Piedmont is Turin.

Piedmont is surrounded on three sides by the Alps, including Monviso, where the Po rises, and Monte Rosa.

The geography of Piedmont is 43. 3 % mountainous, along with extensive areas of hills ( 30. 3 %) and plains ( 26. 4 %).

Piedmont is the second largest of Italy's 20 regions, after Sicily.

Lowland Piedmont is a fertile agricultural region.

Piedmont is one of the great winegrowing regions in Italy.

It is possible to reach Switzerland via a normal road that crosses Oriental Piedmont starting from Arona and ending in Locarno, on the border with Italy.

The economy of Piedmont is anchored on a rich history of state support for excellence in higher education, including some of the leading universities in Italy.

Piedmont is divided into eight provinces:

One version named Tarocco Bolognese: Otocento has survived and there are still others played in Piedmont ; but the number of games outside of Italy is much higher.

Geographically and geologically, Virginia is divided into five regions from east to west: Tidewater, Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Ridge and Valley, and Cumberland Plateau.

The Piedmont is a series of sedimentary and igneous rock-based foothills east of the mountains which were formed in the Mesozoic.

* A pro-republic uprising fails in Piedmont ; one of the activists is Giuseppe Garibaldi.

In 1902, Sterling helped London find a home closer to his own in nearby Piedmont.

The three neighbouring Provinces of Asti, Cuneo, and Alessandria incorporate the Langhe and Monferrato hill region in the centre of Piedmont, limestone and sandstone deposits laid down by the retreating Adriatic some 5 million years ago, and are home to some of Italy's finest red wines, plus some famous whites.

The crisis past, Lobkowitz then went to Piedmont to assist the king against the Prince of Conti, the King of Naples returned home and the Count de Gages followed the Austrians with a weak force.

For the rest of 1642 and part of the 1643 campaigns, Thomas Francis ommanded Piedmontese forces fighting alongside the French under Henri II d ' Orléans, duc de Longueville against the Spanish, generally along the Piedmont / Milan border ; when Longueville was recalled home, he succeeded him as allied commander-in-chief, with Henri de la Tour d ' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne as his second-in-command.

For the rest of 1642 and part of the 1643 campaigns, Thomas commanded Piedmontese forces fighting alongside the French under Henri II d ' Orléans, duc de Longueville against the Spanish, generally along the Piedmont / Milan border ; when Longueville was recalled home, Thomas succeeded him as allied commander-in-chief, with Turenne as his second-in-command.

Piedmont is home to the Chief Ladiga Trail.

Piedmont City Schools implemented the very first One-to-One laptop program in the state of Alabama, giving every student and teacher in grades 4-12 a laptop computer to use at school and home.

For example, Witter Field, home of the Piedmont Highlanders, was rebuilt over a period of years ( 1996 – 1999 ), transforming it from the older facility to a newer and markedly improved one.

Piedmont is home to a number of notable individuals in the political, business, sports, and academic communities, including: ex-Major League Baseball player Dave McCarty ; ex-National Football League player Bubba Paris, San Francisco 49ers ; ex-National Football League player Bill Romanowski ; Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich ; Peter Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and Up and co-writer of WALL-E ; Billie Joe Armstrong of the rock band Green Day ; Eric Whitaker, GC of Tesla Motors ; Thomas Horn, actor ; and Dr. George Rutherford, State Health Officer. Also Dipper and Mabel Pines from the Disney Channel show " Gravity Falls " was born here.

The Piedmont region is considered the viticultural home of Nebbiolo and it is where the grape's most notable wines are made.

In 1628, after the failure of the expedition to Rhe, he was sent to make a diversion against Cardinal Richelieu in Lorraine and Piedmont ; he counselled peace with Spain and the vigorous prosecution of the war with France, but on his return home found his advice neglected.

Some of these deer may have been from as far north as the Great Lakes region to as far west as Texas, yet are also quite at home in the Appalachian and Piedmont regions of the south.

Its lower course includes the most extensive Piedmont forests remaining in Delaware that are home to several key species, including the federally listed endangered bog turtle.

His son, Edward, built his home on the block bounded by North Avenue, Piedmont Avenue, Ponce de Leon Avenue, and Myrtle Street.

As ground-zero for Atlanta arts community, Midtown is home of the annual Atlanta Arts Festival, which brings artists from across the country to Piedmont Park.

Piedmont Park is also the home of the Southeast's largest multicultural festival, Festival Peachtree Latino, which celebrates Hispanic-American culture with arts and crafts, family activities, sporting events, a parade, dance demonstrations, ethnic foods, and a live music stage featuring international performers from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic.

Buckhead is also a center for healthcare, and is home both to Piedmont Hospital and the private, catastrophic care hospital Shepherd Center which specializes in spinal cord injury and acquired brain injury.

* Henry Glassaway Davis House ; Davis ' home at Piedmont, West Virginia, built in 1871

He was a cousin of congressmen Abram Poindexter Maury and John W. Fishburne of Virginia and nephew of congressman James Luther Slayden of Texas who married Ellen ( Maury ) at a Maury home called, " Piedmont ", in Charlottesville, Virginia which is now a part of U. Va.

Piedmont Sanatorium was a rest home for tubercular African Americans in Burkeville, Virginia from 1917 to 1965.

Piedmont Sanatorium was established circa 1917 in Burkeville, Virginia as a rest home for blacks suffering from tuberculosis.

Piedmont staff hoped that they would go back to their home communities and teach other blacks about tuberculosis.

The 300 acre ( 1. 2 km² ) site of PGH was originally Piedmont Sanatorium, a rest home for African Americans with tuberculosis.