The center of the town is on the end of a morainic hill built up by the Mt. Rosa-Mt. Blanc during the last glaciation (Wurm). Because it?s position the inhabited area seems a pyramid that has on the top the castle and the bell-tower. In the middle there is the parish church and the most old houses. On the basis there is the region called Calcinaria because there were, during the past, the kilns for lime preparation.

However there are some peripheric inhabited areas developed from ancient groups of farm houses. In Azeglio common there?s the hamlet of Pobbia too. It was built up during 1600 by Azeglio settlers is a region that was formerly desert.

The Azeglio common is bordering on Albiano, Bollengo, Piverone, Settimo Rottaro. The boundary line, observed on a map, draw the profile of a running dog.

In Azeglio territory there is part of Viverone lake (known as Azeglio lake too). Azeglio shore isn?t exploited for tourist activities and so it?s preserved intact. Particularly interesting is a marshy region called Maresco for its botanical and entomological aspects.

At the end of ?60, in the lake, was founded a group of wooden pile of an ancient palafitte. Further archeological researches, during ?70, discovered an entire pile-dwellings settling dated back to Bronze Age. They were also founded flint-stones, mooring-dog and other objects made of bronze, backed clay or stone. This shows the pre-Romans Azeglio origin.

Azeglio economy has been based for a long time on chairs production. This was a common activity for most of Azeglio families to be alternated with agricultural works. The men, joiner chair-maker, built the wooden structure while the women bottomed chairs with lesca, a typical marshy grass. Azeglio chair were very famous and they were exported in all the Italy and even abroad in USA. This handicraft activity slowly disappeared because the development of industrial production.

Azeglio preserved its traditions of agricultural town. Even if many people that worked the land started to work for Ivrea (a city near Azeglio) factories the remaining farmers rear cattle, cultivate corn, fruit-trees, and vine. Some factory workers, as they can, still dedicated some time to agricultural activities.

The ancient traditions, jealously preserved by Azeglio people, are shown during the village feast and carnival. Carnival is later that the "official" and in fact it coincide with the first lent week. During this manifestation there are two principal characters: the Cadregat (chair-maker) and Ampajaura (chair-bottomer). They are the representation of the old handicraft works. During the village feast, besides some other activities as antique market, some people does the work of the rural world: the laundry, the wheat thrashing made with old machines, the embroidery, etc?