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Caselle (Sommacampagna)
Sommacampagna is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Verona, Veneto, northern Italy. As of 2017, its population was of 14,746. History The town was founded during the Ancient Roman period, with the name of ''Summa Campanea''.History of Sommacampagna
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Veneto
Veneto, officially the Region of Veneto, is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the Northeast Italy, north-east of the country. It is the fourth most populous region in Italy, with a population of 4,851,851 as of 2025. Venice is the region's capital while Verona is the largest city. Veneto was part of the Roman Empire until the 5th century AD. Later, after a Feudalism, feudal period, it was part of the Republic of Venice until 1797. Venice ruled for centuries over one of the largest and richest maritime republics and trade empires in the world. After the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the Venetian Province, former Republic was combined with Lombardy and re-annexed to the Austrian Empire as the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, until that was Italian unification, merged with the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, as a result of the Third Italian War of Independence and of a Plebiscite of Veneto of 1866, plebiscite. Besides Italian language, Italian, most inhabitan ...
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Sona, Veneto
Sona is a ''comune'' with a population of 14,269 in the province of Verona in Italy with an area of . Physical Geography The municipality of Sona, which is located about halfway between Verona, from which it is 13.5 km away, and the Lake Garda, borders to the Bussolengo to the north, Verona to the east, Sommacampagna to the south, Valeggio sul Mincio to the southwest, and Castelnuovo del Garda to the northwest. The municipal territory, which develops for a large part between the morainic hills of the bottom, formed by the glacier sliding towards the valley that gave way to Lake Garda, develops between 83 meters of the flat portion of the territory and 240 meters of the higher hill. high, while the Town Hall rises 169 meters. Twin towns Sona is Twin towns and sister cities, twinned with: * Wadowice (Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Lesser Poland, Poland) * Weiler-Simmerberg (Bavaria, Germany) References External links

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Hall In Tirol
Hall in Tirol is a town in the Innsbruck-Land district of Tyrol (state), Tyrol, Austria. Located at an altitude of 574 m, about 5 km (3 mi) east of the state's capital Innsbruck in the Inn (river), Inn valley, it has a population of 14,771 (Dec 2023). History Hall in the County of Tyrol was first mentioned as a ''salina'' (saltern) near Thaur castle in a 1232 deed. The current name dates back to 1256, and similarly to Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle, Hallein, Schwäbisch Hall or Hallstatt is derived from the Celtic languages, Celtic word for salt. Since the 13th century, the salt mine at Absam in the Hall Valley north of the town formed the main industry of the town and its surroundings. The first adit was laid out in 1272 at the behest of Count Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia, Meinhard II of Tyrol, with the brine channeled by a 10 km (6 mi) long pipeline to the evaporation pond at Hall. The importance of the salt industry, which exported goods as far as Switzerland, th ...
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Federico Bricolo
Federico Bricolo (born 13 July 1966) is an Italian politician. He is a Venetist and a member of Liga Veneta-Lega Nord. Career He has been member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2001 to 2008 and of the Senate from 2008 to 2013. From 2005 to 2006 he served as Under-Secretary of State for Infrastructure and Transport in the Berlusconi III government. In the XVI legislature (2008–13) he was chairman of Lega Nord Lega Nord (LN; ), whose complete name is (), is a right-wing politics, right-wing, federalism, federalist, populism, populist and conservatism, conservative list of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy. In the run-up to the 201 ... parliamentary group. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bricolo, Federico 1966 births Living people People from the Province of Verona Lega Nord politicians Venetist politicians Deputies of Legislature XIV of Italy Deputies of Legislature XV of Italy Senators of Legislature XVI of Italy Politicians of Veneto ...
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Verona Villafranca Airport
Verona Villafranca Airport , also known as Valerio Catullo Airport or ''Villafranca Airport'', is located southwest of Verona, Italy. The airport is situated next to the junction of A4 Milan-Venice and A22 Modena-Brenner motorways. It serves a population of more than 4 million inhabitants in the provinces of Verona, Brescia, Mantua, Trentino, and South Tyrol. History Early years Villafranca Air Base was a military airport during the First World War. It became open to civil traffic in the early 1910s with daily scheduled connections to Rome and charter flights to destinations in northern Europe. Towards the late 1970s, under the first community project by the Province of Verona, Comune of Verona and the local Chamber of Commerce, Villafranca Airport constructed a passenger terminal, offices and handling facilities. The managing society, ''Aeroporto Valerio Catullo di Verona Villafranca S.P.A.'', was established in December 1978. Ownership is currently shared between provi ...
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Milan–Venice Railway
The Milan–Venice railway line is one of the most important railway lines in Italy. It connects the major city of Milan, in Lombardy, with the Adriatic Sea at Venice, in Veneto. The line is state-owned and operated by the state rail infrastructure company, Rete Ferroviaria Italiana that classifies it as a trunk line. The line is electrified at 3,000 volts DC. History The line was designed by the Austrian Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia to connect its two joint capitals and built by a company named the ''Imperiale Regia Privilege Strada ferrata Ferdinandea Lombardo-Veneta dell'Imperatore'' in honour of Ferdinand I of Austria. It was built in sections: the first section to be completed was between Padua and Marghera, opened on 13 December 1842, and was the third railway opened in Italy. On 13 January 1846 a bridge over the Venetian Lagoon between Mestre and Venice was opened, with 222 arches supported on 80,000 larch piles. It was followed by the opening of the Padua–Vicenza secti ...
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Autostrada A4 (Italy)
The Autostrada A4, or Autostrada Serenissima ("Republic of Venice, Serenissima motorway"), is an ''autostrade of Italy, autostrada'' (Italian language, Italian for "motorway") long in Italy located in the Regions of Italy, regions of Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia which connects Turin and Trieste via Milan and Venice crossing the entire Po Valley from west to east. The city of Venice (or rather, Mestre, a mainland ''frazione'' of Venice) originally formed a bottleneck on the A4, but is now bypassed by the Passante di Mestre (the old route through Mestre was renumbered Tangenziale di Venezia, A57). The A4 passes just north of the city of Milan, where it is toll-free. It is a part of the European route E55, E55, European route E64, E64 and European route E70, E70 European routes. Overview Due to the different companies that manage the different parts of the motorway, it is often referred to as formed by five sections: Turin-Milan, Milan-Brescia, Brescia-Padu ...
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Sagra (festival)
In Italy, a (: ) is a local festival or feast celebrating an annual event such as the consecration of a church, the patron saint of a town, or a harvest. Such events always involving food and drink, and frequently a historical pageant and sporting events: when the sporting event is a historical recreation as well, such as a joust or a horse race in costume or armour, it is called "palio". Overview The various almost always have their origins in old country fairs or similar entertainments, but many of them now aim at visitors or even foreign tourists, and some, such as the Quintana of Foligno, had lapsed for many years but have been recently revived. is often dedicated to some specifics of local food, and the name of the includes that food; for example: at Casteldilago near Arrone, at Cannara, at Savona, at di Novafeltria, at Bracciano, at Carpacco-Dignano, and so on. Among the most common are those celebrating olive oil, wine, pasta and pastry of various types, ...
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Frazione
A ''frazione'' (: ''frazioni'') is a type of subdivision of a ''comune'' ('municipality') in Italy, often a small village or hamlet outside the main town. Most ''frazioni'' were created during the Fascist era (1922–1943) as a way to consolidate territorial subdivisions in the country. In the autonomous region of the Aosta Valley, a ''frazione'' is officially called ''hameau'' in French. In South Tyrol, a ''frazione'' is called ''Fraktion'' in German and ''frazion'' in Ladin. Description The term ''frazioni'' refers to the villages or hamlets that often make up a ''comune'' in rural Italian areas. Subdivision of a ''comune'' is optional; some ''comuni'' have no ''frazioni'', but others have several dozen. The ''comune'' usually has the same name of the '' capoluogo'', but not always, in which case it is called a ''comune sparso''. In practice, most ''frazioni'' are small villages or hamlets, occasionally just a clump of houses. Not every hamlet is classified as a ''frazione ...
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Villafranca Di Verona
Villafranca di Verona is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Verona in the Veneto, Northern Italy. History The position on the ancient Via Postumia and the perpendicular intersection structure of its roads suggests that the city had Roman origins. In the Middle Ages, in occasion of the foundation of the Rectors' Council of Verona, on March 9, 1185, it received the privilege of a tax free town, from which derived the name of Vilafranca (medieval town), ''villa franca''. It was the site of the signature of the Treaty of Villafranca, between Napoleon III and the Austrian army, which concluded the Second Italian Independence War. Nearby was the site of the Battle of Custoza (1866), Battle of Custoza, during the Third War of Italian Independence. Main sights *Castle, built from 1199. One of its towers has stones coming from an arch entitled to the Roman emperor Tiberius. The castle was destroyed several times, but was rebuilt by the Republic of Venice, until it was abandoned ...
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