Castelgerundo is a new ''

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'' (municipality) in the

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in the

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region Lombardy, located about southeast of

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and about southeast of

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. Casrelgerundo borders the following municipalities:

Formigara Formigara (locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cremona in the Italian region Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and about northwest of Cremona. Formigara borders the following municipalities: Castelgerundo, Casti ...

Castiglione d'Adda Castiglione d'Adda ( Lodigiano: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Lodi, in Lombardy, northern Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is loca ...

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Terranova dei Passerini Terranova dei Passerini ( Lodigiano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Lodi in the Italian region Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and about southeast of Lodi. Terranova dei Passerini borders the following municipa ...

, Pizzighettone,

Cavacurta Cavacurta is a ''frazione'' of Castelgerundo in the Province of Lodi in the Italian region Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and about southeast of Lodi. From 1 January 2018 the comune was unified with Camairago and the new municip ...

Codogno Codogno (; Lodigiano: ) is a town and ''comune'' of 15,868 inhabitants in the province of Lodi, Lombardy, northern Italy. It is the main center of the plain known as Basso Lodigiano, which has about 90,000 inhabitants. It received the honorary ti ...

. The new municipality, from 1 January 2018, was made from the union of

and

Camairago Camairago is a ''frazione'' of Castelgerundo in the Province of Lodi in the Italian region Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and about southeast of Lodi. From 1 January 2018 the comune was unified with Cavacurta and the new municipal ...

. The municipality contains also the ''

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'' (subdivision) Bosco Valentino e Mulazzana.

History

The process for union of the municipalities of Camairago and Cavacurta started in 2016. On 22 October 2017 a

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was held which gave positive results. The following 28 November the union of the two municipalities was approved by the

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.Castelgerundo, la Regione dà il via libera al nuovo Comune
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References

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