Region "capital" here is the vocation of the Piedmont. Since Emanuele Filiberto moved the capital of the Renaissance Duchy of Savoy in Turin until the unification of Italy in the Risorgimento battles in the classroom and the Subalpine Parliament, still preserved in the Palazzo Carignano.

The transfer to Rome the capital of Piedmont is not without its centrality in the development of ideas and participation in the great moments in recent history as the country's resistance movement and the great transformation of social relations, of which Turin becomes the focus in his new role, gained from the mid-nineteenth century, and strenuously defended beyond the threshold of the new millennium, capital industry.

An ability to innovate and turn crises into opportunities for development that allows today to Piedmont to position itself as the nerve center of innovation and new technologies, not only in Italy but throughout Europe.