Bra is a town and comune in the province of Cuneo in the northwest Italian region of Piedmont. It is situated 50 kilometres south of Turin and 50 km northeast of Cuneo in the area known as Roero. Bra is the birthplace of the feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero, politician Emma Bonino, and of the activist Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement and of the world’s first University of Gastronomic Sciences, whose main campus is located within Bra’s municipal boundaries at Pollenzo.