Mariano Comense (
Brianzöö: ) is a town and ''
comune
A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...
'' in the
province of Como
The province of Como (; Comasco dialect, Comasco: ) is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Lombardy region of Italy. It borders the Switzerland, Swiss cantons of Ticino and Grisons, Grigioni to the north, the Italian provinces of Province of ...
,
Lombardy
The Lombardy Region (; ) is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Lombardy is ...
,
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
. It has c. 23,600 inhabitants and is one of the most important cities of the
Brianza. It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on February 29, 1996. It is served by
Mariano Comense railway station.
Main sights
*Church of Santo Stefano, of medieval origins but rebuilt in 1583
*Baptistery of San Giovanni Battista, in
Romanesque style.
*Sanctuary of San Rocco
Sports
Monnet Xenia Sport is an amateur football club based in Mariano Comense It competes in the
Prima Categoria
The Prima Categoria is the seventh level (since 2014–15) in the Italian football league system and is organized by the National Amateur League by the Regional Committees. Each individual league winner within the Prima Categoria level progress ...
, Group B, for the 2024-2025 season.
References
Cities and towns in Lombardy
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