Somma Lombardo (''Suma'' in lombard) is a town in the

province of Varese The province of Varese () is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Varese (population of 80,857 inhabitants), but its largest city is Busto Arsizio. The headquarters of AgustaWestland, the compa ...

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. It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on 16 June 1959.

Industry

The airline Neos has its head office in the city.

History

The town was strategically located on the consular

Roman road Roman roads ( ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Em ...

, passing from the town of Sesto Calende and linking

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

to Verbano. In medieval times, the city was under the jurisdiction of the nearby town of Arsago Seprio, an important political centre of the region. In the forest around Somma, various vestiges of trenches and landing strips dating back to the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

can still be found.

People

Giuseppina Aliverti Giuseppina Aliverti (1894 – 1982) was an Italian geophysicist specializing in several fields of terrestrial physics. She is remembered for developing the Aliverti-Lovera method of measuring the radioactivity of water. Biography Born in Somma ...

(1894–1982), geophysicist remembered for developing the Aliverti-Lovera method of measuring the radioactivity of water * Niccolò Sfondrati, Pope Gregory XIV * Valerio Valeri, anthropologist

References

External links

Official site of Somma Lombardo Municipality

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