Novara (
Nuàra in the local
Lombard dialect) is the capital city of the
province of Novara in the
Piedmont region in northwest
Italy, to the west of
Milan. With about 105,000 inhabitants, it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after
Turin. It is an important crossroads for commercial traffic along the routes from Milan to Turin and from
Genoa to
Switzerland. Novara lies between the rivers
Agogna and
Terdoppio in northeastern Piedmont, from Milan and from Turin.