Salasco


Salasco is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about west of Vercelli.
The municipality of Salasco contains the frazione Selve, a typical cascina a corte of the Vercellese rice paddy fields landscape.
Salasco borders the following municipalities: Crova, Lignana, Sali Vercellese, San Germano Vercellese, and Vercelli.
Selve, together with the nearby Tenuta Veneria, was a filming location for Bitter Rice, a 1949 neorealistic movie starring Silvana Mangano and Vittorio Gassman.