CARIGNANO, a town of Piedmont, Italy, in the province of Turin, um. m. S. by tramway from the town of Turin. Pop. (1921) town, 3,952, commune, 6,639. It has a handsome church (S. Giovanni Battista) erected in 1756-66 by the architect Bene detto Alfieri di Sostegno (I 7 oo-17 67 ), uncle of the poet Alfieri. S. Maria delle Grazie contains the tomb of Bianca Palaeologus, wife of Duke Charles I. of Savoy, at whose court Bayard was brought up. The town passed into the hands of the counts of Savoy in 1418. Carignano was erected by Charles Emmanuel I. of Savoy into a principality as an appanage for his third son, Thomas Francis (1596-1656), whose descendant, Charles Albert, prince of Carignano, became king of Sardinia on the extinction of the elder line of the house of Savoy at the death of Charles Felix in 1831.