Collecchio
Sign in to saveCollecchio (Parmigiano: ) is a town in the province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It is located by road southwest of the centre of Parma. A major food-producing area, it is home to multinational Italian dairy and food corporation Parmalat and the Parma F.C. training complex, Centro Sportivo di Collecchio, and is connected by railway. Under the Romans the town was called Sustrina, Later, in Christian times it was called, Colliculum, because of its location on a small hill. In 2015, Collecchio became recognized as the first community to mandate that all fireworks set off in the town
Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Collecchio
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Collecchio
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Collecchio Piazza Libertà.jpg
- Italian comune.image_caption
- Collecchio Piazza Libertà
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Collecchio-Stemma.png
- Italian comune.province
- (PR)
- Italian comune.frazioni
- Case Quintavalla, Case Zingari, Collecchiello, Folli, Gaiano, Giarola, La Corte Anguissola, La Ripa, Lemignano, Madregolo, Maiatico, Oppiano, Ozzano Taro, Ponte Scodogna, San Martino Sinzano, Stradella, Villa Lucia, Villanuova, Villa Vecchia
- Italian comune.mayor
- Paolo Bianchi
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 58
- Italian comune.population_total
- 14295
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 31 December 2014
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Collecchiesi
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 112
- Italian comune.saint
- St. Prosper
- Italian comune.day
- 24 November
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 43044
- Italian comune.area_code
- 0521
- Italian comune.istat
- 034009
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Collecchio (Parmigiano: ) is a town in the province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It is located by road southwest of the centre of Parma. A major food-producing area, it is home to multinational Italian dairy and food corporation Parmalat and the Parma F.C. training complex, Centro Sportivo di Collecchio, and is connected by railway. Under the Romans the town was called Sustrina, Later, in Christian times it was called, Colliculum, because of its location on a small hill. In 2015, Collecchio became recognized as the first community to mandate that all fireworks set off in the town be silent.
==History== The first signs of human settlement in Collecchio date from the Paleolithic Age. With growing numbers of inhabitants in the Neolithic, deforestation led to flooding in the plains. As a result, settlements were moved up into the hills.