Conzano
Sign in to saveThe Commune of Conzano (Italian: Comune di Conzano; Piemontese: Consan) is a municipality located in the south of Casale Monferrato, in the north-west of the italian province of Alessandria. The town became famous for having been declared, in 1992, as the symbol of the massive emigration of the people to the northern Queensland, Australia, about 1890-1935 period: the ancient town square, named ''Piazza d'Armi (= Weapons Square), was renamed in Piazza Australia'' and Conzano has been twinned with Ingham, Queensland.
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Conzano is a small Italian municipality in the province of Alessandria in northwestern Italy, located south of Casale Monferrato. The town is notable for its historical connection to Italian emigration to Australia—it was officially designated in 1992 as a symbol of mass emigration to northern Queensland between 1890 and 1935, and has since been twinned with the Australian town of Ingham.
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- Conzano
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- Comune di Conzano
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- Italian comune.province
- (AL)
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- San Maurizio
- Italian comune.mayor
- Emanuele Demaria
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- 11.61
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- 958
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- 30 June 2017
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- Conzanesi
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- 262
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- Twin town
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The Commune of Conzano (Italian: Comune di Conzano; Piemontese: Consan) is a municipality located in the south of Casale Monferrato, in the north-west of the italian province of Alessandria. The town became famous for having been declared, in 1992, as the symbol of the massive emigration of the people to the northern Queensland, Australia, about 1890-1935 period: the ancient town square, named ''Piazza d'Armi (= Weapons Square), was renamed in Piazza Australia'' and Conzano has been twinned with Ingham, Queensland.
==Geography== The town is situated on the Montferrat hills, among the Grana and Rotaldo creeks, at an altitude of 262 meters above the sea level, and includes two decentralized hamlets (the latter's formal status as a frazione) in the northern flat side (near Casale Monferrato), recognised in the Statuto Comunale ): the first one is Castello, the second one is San Maurizio. To the north-east side, the country borders with Occimiano, to the south-east with Lu e Cuccaro Monferrato, and to the west with Camagna Monferrato. The municipal territory extends over a predominantly rural area of .