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Boves is a municipality (comune) located in Italy. It is a small administrative division that, like other comuni, serves as a local government unit in the Italian municipal system.
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Key facts
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Piedmont
- Province
- Cuneo (CN)
- Frazioni
- Castellar, Cerati, Fontanelle, Madonna dei Boschi, San Mauro, Rivoira, San Giacomo, Sant'Anna, Mellana
- Mayor
- Maurizio Paoletti
- Total
- 51.1 km (19.7 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 542 m (1,778 ft)
- Density
- 193/km (500/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Bovesani
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Dialing code
- 0171
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Comune di Boves - Home Page
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- comune of Italy
- Official name
- Boves
- Demonym
- bovesani
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Province of Cuneo
- Population
- 9615
- Area
- 50.95
- Elevation
- 590
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Vernante
- Official website
- www.comune.boves.cn.it
- Image
- Boves, Province of Cuneo, Italy - panoramio (1).jpg
- Dialing code
- 0171
- Licence plate code
- CN
- Patron saint
- Bartholomew the Apostle
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- Commons category
- Boves (comune, Italy)
- postal code
- 12012
- twinned administrative body
- Castello di Godego
- different from
- Boves
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Encyclopedic overview
Boves is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Turin and about 6 kilometres (4 mi) south of Cuneo. It borders the following municipalities: Borgo San Dalmazzo, Cuneo, Limone Piemonte, Peveragno, Robilante, Roccavione, and Vernante.
The town of Boves was the scene, on 19 September 1943, of a massacre of civilians by the 1st SS Panzer Division, in which the German troops set fire to more than 350 houses and killed numerous villagers.
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