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Villar Perosa
Villar Perosa is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of Turin.
Villar Perosa borders the following municipalities: Pinasca, San Pietro Val Lemina, Inverso Pinasca, San Germano Chisone, Porte. Once a predominantly agricultural center, it is now an industrial hub with two SKF plants and one of ZF Sachs.
Agnelli family estate
The area is often associated with the Agnelli family of Fiat fame as the family estate is located there. Members of the Agnelli family have resided in the country house since 1811. Marella Agnelli, widow of Gianni Agnelli, resides there.
The family estate has a football pitch which is sometimes used by Juventus F.C. for friendlies or training. It hosts an annual friendly between the first team and Primavera (U-20) squad, a club tradition.
Twin towns
Pizzoni, Italy
Großvillars, part of Oberderdingen, GermanyReferences
Villar-Perosa
Villar-Perosa may refer to:
Villar-Perosa aircraft submachine gun
The Villar Perosa M15 was an Italian portable automatic firearm developed during the World War I by the Officine di Villar Perosa, originally to be used by the second crew member/observer of military aeroplanes. While it was designed to use 9mm pistol ammunition, it is not a 'true' submachine gun because of its intention to be used as a mounted weapon.
The Villar Perosa was designed as a portable double barrel machine gun firing a 9mm round. In practice the machine gun consisted of two independent coupled weapons, each with its own barrel firing mechanism and separate 25-round magazine. As it was originally designed to be operated from airplanes it had a high rate of fire of over 1,500 rounds per minute. However, in practice the 9mm munition was not sufficiently powerful to shoot down aircraft which had become ever more resistant over the course of the war, and in addition the range was inadequate.
Instead the Villar Perosa began to be issued to ground troops. Between May and November 1916 a section was assigned to each infantry battalion of the Italian army and from May 1917 the number of sections was increased to 3 per battalion. The weapon was first used at the 12th Battle of Isonzo.
