Gardone Val Trompia (
Brescian
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: ) is a town and ''
comune
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'' in the
province of Brescia, in
Lombardy
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, northern
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
. It is bounded by the comunes of
Marcheno and
Sarezzo. It is located in the
Trompia valley. Gardone received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on 21 September 2001.
Commerce
It is home to the major small arms manufacturers
FAMARS and Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro
Beretta. Among several regional makers of replica black powder firearms (such as
A. Uberti, Srl.
A. Uberti, Srl. is an Italian manufacturer of high quality replicas of 19th century American percussion revolvers, carbines, and rifles as well as cartridge revolvers, single-shot rifles, and lever-action rifles. These replicas are commonly ...
, and
Chiappa Firearms), the
Davide Pedersoli company leads in production of over 75 types of historical black powder muzzle loading and breech loading firearms and is also known as the dominant brand in black powder shooting competitions worldwide.
Twin towns
Gardone Val Trompia is
twinned with:
*
Nanoro Department, Burkina Faso
People
*
Bartolomeo Beretta (c. 1490 – c. 1565), founder of Beretta
References
Cities and towns in Lombardy
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