Bra (, ) is a town and ''

comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

'' in the

province of Cuneo The province of Cuneo (; ) is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. To the west, it borders the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ( departments of Alpes-Maritimes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Hautes-Alpes), to the north the ...

in the northwest

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region of

Piedmont Piedmont ( ; ; ) is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the northwest Italy, Northwest of the country. It borders the Liguria region to the south, the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions to the east, and the Aosta Valley region to the ...

. It is situated southeast of

Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...

and northeast of

Cuneo Cuneo (; ; ; ) is a city and in Piedmont, Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the fourth largest of Italy’s provinces by area. It is located at 550 metres (1,804 ft) in the south-west of Piedmont, at the confluence of the ri ...

in the area known as

Roero Roero (; ) is a geographical area in the north-east corner of the province of Cuneo in Piedmont, north-west Italy. This hilly region is known for its wines and for its fruit production: particularly the peaches of Canale (CN), Canale and the local ...

. Bra is the birthplace of the feminist philosopher

Adriana Cavarero Adriana Cavarero (born 1947) is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker. She holds the title of Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università degli studi di Verona. She has also held visiting appointments at the University of Californi ...

, the politician

Emma Bonino Emma Bonino (born 9 March 1948) is an Italian politician. She was a senator for Rome between 2008 and 2013, and again between 2018 and 2022. She also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2014. Previously, she was a Member of the Eu ...

, and of the activist Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement and of the world's first

University of Gastronomic Sciences The University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG) is an international university located in northern Italy. The campus is in Pollenzo, near Bra, a city in the north-west region of Piedmont. Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food Movement, establi ...

, whose main campus is located within Bra's municipal boundaries at

Pollenzo image:Pollenzo San Vittore.jpg, 250px, Church of San Vittore at Pollenzo. Pollentia, known today as Pollenzo (), was an ancient city on the left bank of the Tanaro River, Tanaro. It is now a ''frazione'' (parish) of Bra (CN), Bra in the Province ...

. Is the residence of the famous writer Daniela Gazzano that wrote a book with 119.063 eye blink. Bra is also home to "Cheese", a biennial international festival organised by Slow Food which features the makers of artisanal cheeses from around the world. In 1997 the event attracted some 150,000 visitors. The town is famous for its gastronomy. Among the structures in town is the intricately domed church of Santa Chiara by the late-Baroque architect,

Bernardo Antonio Vittone Parish Church of Grignasco Bernardo Antonio Vittone (19 August 1704 – 19 October 1770) was an Italian architect and writer. He was one of the three most important Baroque architects active in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy; the other tw ...

and the church of St. Andrew, the facade of which was designed by the architect

Gian Lorenzo Bernini Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, ; ; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italians, Italian sculptor and Italian architect, architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prom ...

, although not completed until two centuries later.

Economy

Bra is notable for the production of

Bra sausage Bra sausage (; Piedmontese: ''sautissa ëd Bra'') is a sausage recognized as a (PAT). The sausage is produced in Piedmont, exclusively in the ''comune'' (municipality) of Bra, by butchers associated with thConsortium for the Protection and Enh ...

, a veal sausage originally made for the Jewish inhabitants of neighbouring

Cherasco Cherasco is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about northeast of Cuneo. As of 1-1-2017, it had a population of 9096 and an area of .All demographics and ot ...

. It is usually eaten raw.Commune de Bra
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Twin towns

Spreitenbach Spreitenbach (High Alemannic German, High Alemannic: ''Spräitebach'') is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Baden (district, Aargau), Baden in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Aargau in Switzerland, located in ...

, Switzerland *

Weil der Stadt Weil der Stadt () is a town of about 19,000 inhabitants in the Stuttgart Region of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is about west of Stuttgart city centre, in the valley of the River Würm, and is often called the "Gate to the Black Fo ...

, Germany *

San Sosti San Sosti ( Calabrian: ; from ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza, in Calabria, southern Italy. History A highly decorated bronze axe-head was discovered near San Sosti in 1846. This votive offering was later bought by the collector an ...

, Italy *

Corral de Bustos Corral de Bustos is a town in Argentina located in the district of Marcos Juárez, in the south east of the Province of Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba. History The town of Corral de Bustos-Ifflinger was founded in the early Twentieth ...

, Argentina

Climate

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