“ Cotton, silk, wool and hemp are among the local manufactures.
Pinerolo was bestowed on the bishops of Turin by Otto III. in 996, but in 1078 the countess Adelaide made it over to the Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria, in whose possession it remained till 1159. Thomas I. of Savoy captured the castle in 1188, and in 1246 the commune formally recognized the supremacy of Savoy. ”