Salasco | |
Official Name: | Comune di Salasco |
Coordinates: | 45.3333°N 24°W |
Region: | Piedmont |
Province: | Vercelli (VC) |
Frazioni: | Selve |
Mayor: | Doriano Bertolone |
Area Total Km2: | 12.1 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 240 |
Population As Of: | December 2004 |
Population Demonym: | Salaschesi |
Elevation M: | 148 |
Saint: | Saint James the Greater |
Postal Code: | 13040 |
Area Code: | 0161 |
Salasco is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 50km (30miles) northeast of Turin and about 12km (07miles) west of Vercelli.
The municipality of Salasco contains the frazione Selve, a typical cascina a corte of the Vercellese rice paddy fields landscape.
Salasco borders the following municipalities: Crova, Lignana, Sali Vercellese, San Germano Vercellese, and Vercelli.
Selve, together with the nearby Tenuta Veneria (comune of Lignana), was a filming location for Bitter Rice, a 1949 neorealistic movie starring Silvana Mangano and Vittorio Gassman.[2]