The New International Encyclopædia/Fossano

FOSSANO, fō̇s-sä′nō̇. A city in North Italy, 1240 feet above the sea, on the left bank of the Stura, 40 miles south of Turin (Map: Italy, B 3). The name Fossano, derived from the Latin fons sana, indicates the presence of much-visited mineral springs. The city has promenades on the site of the old walls, a fourteenth-century cathedral, a seminary, a gymnasium, and an academy of science. It manufactures silk fabrics, gunpowder, leather, paper, and baskets. Fossano was purchased by the House of Savoy in 1340, was the residence in the sixteenth century of Philibert Emmanuel and several of his successors, and in 1796 and 1799 was the scene of battles between the French and the Austrians. Population, in 1881, of commune, 18,000; in 1901, 18,133.