Salasco

Infobox CityIT
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official_name = Salasco
name = Salasco
region = Piedmont
province = Province of Vercelli (VC)
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area_total_km2 = 12.1
population_as_of = Dec. 2004
population_total = 240
population_density_km2 = 20
timezone = CET, UTC+1
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frazioni = Selve
telephone = 0161
postalcode = 13040
gentilic = salaschesi
saint = Saint James the Greater
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mayor = Roberto Campominosi
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Salasco is a "comune" (municipality) in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 50 km northeast of Turin and about 12 km west of Vercelli. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 240 and an area of 12.1 km².All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.]

The municipality of Salasco contains the "frazione" (subdivision, mainly a village or a hamlet) Selve, which is a huge, typical farmstead of Vercelli's countryside, the most important rice-growing district in Italy.

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 movie starring Silvana Mangano and Vittorio Gassman.

Demographic evolution

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