 | plains of Lombardia and the city of Milano.
It is a land of enormously varied topography but its
defining feature is the peaks of the Alps, which are its
boundary to the west and the north and whose snowy
summits can be seen on a clear day almost anywhere in
Piemonte - the peaks above the plains. To the south there
is a range of sub - alpine hills, covered in many places by
dense forests and split by ravines, that separate Piemonte
from the Ligurian coast of the Mediterranean. Across
the centre of the region is the valley of the River Po,
which rises in the Alps to the left and, swelled by
numerous tributaries, drains a fertile alluvial plain
before reaching the Adriatic Sea south of Venice.
Some of the richest agricultural land in the world is to be
found where plains spread out below mountain ranges.
Examples are the Vale of Kashmir below the Himalayas.. | |
