Grumo Appula (
Barese: ; la, Grumum) is a town and ''
comune'' of the
Metropolitan City of Bari,
Apulia
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, southern
Italy.
The town is a few kilometers inland from the port of
Bari
Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...
on the
Adriatic Sea and has a population of about 12,200.
People
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Francesco Colasuonno
Francesco Colasuonno (2 January 1925 – 31 May 2003) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as a Vatican diplomat for more than two decades. He had the personal title of archbishop and at the end of his service became a cardina ...
(1925-2003), cardinal and Vatican diplomat
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Sergio Rubini (1959-), actor and film director
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Francesco Laforgia
Francesco Laforgia (born 1 February 1978) is an Italian academic and politician.
Biography
Laforgia graduated in Economics and Social Sciences at the Bocconi University in 2002, specializing in innovation economics. He spent several periods of st ...
(1978-), politician
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Nicola Ventola
Nicola Ventola (born 24 May 1978) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Ventola played for several clubs in Italy throughout his career, and also had a loan spell with English side Crystal Palace. At international ...
(1978-), footballer
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Massimo Stano
Massimo Stano (born 27 February 1992) is a male Italian racewalker. He competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, finishing in the 19th position, and the same event at the 2020 Summ ...
(1992-), Olympic champion racewalking
References
Cities and towns in Apulia
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