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3 unusual facts about comune


Comune

The comune provides many of the basic civil functions: registry of births and deaths, registry of deeds, contracting for local roads and public works, etc.

James of Ireland

After Odoric's death, the commune of Udine, (Friuli in north-eastern Italy), voted a sum of money to James for travelling with their fellow citizen.

Order of Vittorio Veneto

A Lieutenant General chaired the council, which screened applications made by eligible parties to the municipality of residence.


1926–27 Prima Divisione

Rispetto al precedente torneo omonimo di massima categoria e all'istituendo campionato di Divisione Nazionale, la nuova Prima Divisione cadetta aveva in comune solo il fatto di concludersi con la proclamazione di un vincitore nazionale, mentre la struttura riprendeva invece quella della previgente Seconda Divisione, essendo basata su quattro gironi interregionali costruiti su criteri di vincinanza geografica.

7515 Marrucino

It is named after the Marrucini, an ancient Italian tribe, and the namesake of the comune of San Martino sulla Marrucina.

Abano

Abano Terme, a town and comune in the Padua province of Italy

Bagnoli, Arcidosso

Bagnoli is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Arcidosso, province of Grosseto, in the area of Mount Amiata.

Bahlui River

Its spring is located at an altitude of 500 metres in the Tudora Comune, Botoşani County, in the eastern part of Suceava Plateau.

Bresso

At the 2001 census the municipality had a population of 27,132 inhabitants and a population density of 8,027.2 persons/km², making it the most densely populated comune in Italy outside the Province of Naples (although it was only seventh overall, behind Portici, Casavatore, San Giorgio a Cremano, Melito di Napoli, Naples, and Arzano).

Capitán Pastene

Capitán Pastene has been proposed to be nominated "comune" of southern Chile and so be a twin city of Pavullo, a small town near Modena.

Casere Lake

The lake is an artificial lake, and is located by the comune of Branzi.

Casorate

Casorate Sempione, a comune (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 40 km northwest of Milan and about 20 km southwest of Varese.

Castel del Monte

Castel del Monte, Abruzzo, a comune and town in the Province of L'Aquila, Italy

Castel Lagopesole

Castel Lagopesole, or simply Lagopesole, is a civil parish (frazione) of the municipality (comune) of Avigliano, in Basilicata, southern Italy.

Cervo

Cervo, Liguria, a comune in the province of Imperia in the region of Liguria

Civitanovese Calcio

In 1938 the Fascist regime unified the upper part with the port area, creating the comune of Civitanova Marche.

Comuni of the Province of Lucca

The following is a list of the 35 comuni of the Province of Lucca, Tuscany, in Italy.

Crocemosso

Since 1929 Crocemosso was a separate comune (municipality), which was unified with the former comune of Valle Inferiore Mosso in the new comune of Valle Mosso.

Dogana, Civitella Paganico

Dogana is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Civitella Paganico, province of Grosseto.

Felix Pedro

Pedro was born April 16, 1858 to a family of subsistence farmers in the Apennine village of Trignano, Comune di Fanano and was the youngest of six brothers.

Ferentillo

The comune, located in the valley of the Nera, is divided by the river into the burghs of Matterella and Precetto.

Germanasca

The stream is formed from Lago Verde, a small Alpine lake in the Cottian Alps, and initially runs northwards, before reaching the comune of Salza di Pinerolo and turning east.

Giuseppe Fioravanzo

As he requested in his last will, his entire personal archive was donated to the historical archive of the Comune of Monselice.

Italian profanity

For example, the Comune of Brignano Gera d'Adda, after the curate complained about the frequency of blasphemous profanity in the parish recreation centre, banned the practice in the civic centre and in all places of retail business, be it public or private.

Jenne

Jenne, Lazio, a city and comune in the province of Rome, Italy

Lignana

Tenuta Veneria, together with Selve (frazione of the comune of Salasco), was a filming location for Bitter Rice, a 1949 movie starring Silvana Mangano and Vittorio Gassman.

Lomellina

It includes 58 comuni (municipalities), the most important today being Vigevano and Mortara; the name however derives from its ancient capital Lomello.

Malesco

Malesco is the most populous comune in Val Vigezzo and has a station on the Domodossola–Locarno railway which runs along the valley.

Melezzo Occidentale

After a course of 13 km, which takes it through the commune of Masera and entails a descent of about 2000 m, it joins the Toce near Domodossola.

Melezzo Orientale

To begin with the river runs south forming the deep valley of Arvogno (a locality within the commune of Toceno); near Santa Maria Maggiore (VB) the course turns east and takes it through the gentler slopes of the high plain which forms the central section of the Val Vigezzo; at Malesco it is joined by the Loana.

Museo storia naturale di Pisa

It is part of the University of Pisa and is now located in Pisa Charterhouse 10 km from the city of Pisa in the comune (municipality)of Calci.

Numana

Svarchi, located one mile west of the border with the comune of Sirolo.

Osp

The village is a border crossing into Italy, with the village of Crociata di Prebenico (Križpot), Caresana (Mačkolje), in the comune (municipality) of San Dorligo della Valle (Dolina).

Pellice

The stream is formed at the western slope of Monte Granero in the Cottian Alps and initially runs northwards, before turning east and reaching the comune of Bobbio Pellice.

Petrella

Petrella Tifernina, a comune (municipality) in the Province of Campobasso in Italy

Petrella Salto, a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in Italy

Pian d'Alma

Pian d'Alma is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comuni of Castiglione della Pescaia and Scarlino, province of Grosseto.

Priscoe

San Prisco, comune (municipality) in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania

Punta Bagnà

Administratively the mountain is divided between the Italian comune of Bardonecchia (southern face) and the French communes of Modane (north-western face) and Avrieux (north-eastern face).

Rhuilles

Rhuilles is a frazione of the Italian comune of Cesana Torinese (province of Turin), located at 1,675 metres above sea level in the Val Thuras (upper Val di Susa).

Riomaggiore

Riomaggiore (Rimazùu in the local Ligurian language) is a village and comune in the province of La Spezia, situated in a small valley in the Liguria region of Italy.

San Savino

Costa San Savino, in the comune of Costacciaro in the Province of Perugia, Umbria (Italy)

Santarcangelo

Sant'Arcangelo Trimonte, a comune in the Province of Benevento (Campania), Italy

Scarlino Scalo

Scarlino Scalo is a town in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Scarlino, province of Grosseto.

Sellia

Sellia, Calabria, a comune in the Province of Catanzaro, Italy

Strona di Mosso Valley

Besides Mosso and Valle Mosso other municipalities of the area are Cossato (a town which lies in the main valley near its exit on the Po plain) and Bioglio, Callabiana, Camandona, Crosa, Lessona, Piatto, Pettinengo, Quaregna, Ronco Biellese, Selve Marcone, Soprana, Strona, Ternengo, Trivero, Vallanzengo, Valle San Nicolao, Veglio, Zumaglia.

Trebula

Trebula Balliensis, modern Treglia, in the comune of Pontelatone, Province of Caserta, Campania

Verrucole Castle

Verrucole Castle (Italian: Fortezza delle Verrucole) is a ruined Medieval fortress located in the Garfagnana region of Tuscany, in San Romano in Garfagnana comune, near the city of Lucca.

Between the 16th and 17th centuries noted Venetian families (including the Contarini and the Veniers) built a number of villas in the area, and at this same time the old center, Vo' Vecchio, was founded, seat of the comune until 1900.


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