Town located in Piedmont (Italy), Collegno was founded two thousand years ago by the Romans (then called Collegium Ad Quintum) along the way of the Mont Cenis leading to France and is located on a wide floodplain at end of the Val di Susa , a few kilometers from the Alps. Its territory, crossed by the river Dora Riparia, bordered by the municipalities of Turin, Grugliasco, Rivoli, Pianezza, Venaria Reale, Druento, falls within the broader institutional structure of the Metropolitan City of Turin. The town is now home to about 50,000 inhabitants (49.674 by 31.12.2016) and is divided into seven neighborhoods (Centro Storico, Borgonuovo, Leumann-Terracorta, Villaggio Dora, Borgata Paradiso, Regina Margherita e Santa Maria) and a rural village called Savonera. The portion of municipal area which is most densely inhabited today was built in modern times (50s-60s of the twentieth century) alongside the so called  Corso Francia and at the present there is no solution of continuity between Collegno and the territory of the main city of Turin, with which it is connected by road, rail and underground.