Trecate is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Province of Novara
Novara (It. ''Provincia di Novara'') is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Novara.
In 1992, the new Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola was created through the fusion of three geographical areas which had prev ...
in the
Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
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region
Piedmont
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, located about northeast of
Turin
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and about east of
Novara
Novara (, Novarese: ) is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With 101,916 inhabitants (on 1 January 2021), it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It i ...
.
It harbors a major refinery complex for fuels and
liquefied petroleum gas
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LPG is used as a fuel gas in heating appliances, cookin ...
(LPG), serving northern and central Italy.
It is served by
Trecate railway station
Trecate railway station is a railway station in Italy. Located on the Turin–Milan railway, it serves the municipality of Trecate in Piedmont, even if it is part of the Lombardy railway system. The train services are operated by Trenord.
Train ...
.
Among its churches are:
*
Santa Maria Assunta
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- main parish church
*
San Francesco San Francesco may refer to:
* San Francesco d'Assisi ( 1182–1226), Italian Catholic friar, deacon, philosopher, mystic, and preacher
* San Francesco al Campo, a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Churches in Italy
...
- Contains frescoes by il Cerano
*Sanctuary of the Madonna delle Grazie
*
Oratory del Gonfalone
Castle of Trecate
The town of Trecate used to have a castle within its territory, this castle was similar to both
Warkworth Castle
Warkworth Castle is a ruined medieval castle in Warkworth in the English county of Northumberland. The village and castle occupy a loop of the River Coquet, less than a mile from England's north-east coast. When the castle was founded is unc ...
and the Castle of Cuasso al Monte (also disappeared), in
Cinque Vette Park
The Cinque Vette Park is a natural park, established by the Region of Lombardy on 19 June 2017.
The park is located in the north-eastern part of the Province of Varese, in the Italian region of Lombardy. It takes the name from the main geographic ...
.
Twin towns — sister cities
Trecate is
twinned with:
*
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (; oc, label= Vivaro-Alpine, Sant Pau de Tricastin), sometimes known as -en-Tricastin, is a commune, an administrative region, in the Drôme department in southeastern France.
Name
The settlement is attested as ''Aug ...
, France (2003)
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Piedmont
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