Cortemaggiore

Cortemaggiore (Piacentino: ) is an Italian comune (municipality) located in the Province of Piacenza. Cortemaggiore is located in northern Italy about from Milan and from Bologna, in the Po Valley. The municipality borders Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Villanova sull'Arda, Besenzone, San Pietro in Cerro, Caorso, Pontenure and Cadeo.

Key facts

Italian comune.name: Cortemaggiore
Italian comune.official_name: Comune di Cortemaggiore
Italian comune.motto: "Nihil sanctius quam recta fides cum sororibus associata" (Nothing is holier than a true faith combined with other virtues)
Italian comune.image_shield: Cortemaggiore-Stemma.png
Italian comune.region: Emilia-Romagna
Italian comune.province: Province of Piacenza (PC)
Italian comune.frazioni: Chiavenna Landi and San Martino in Olza
Italian comune.mayor: Gianluigi Repetti (Casa delle Libertà)
Italian comune.area_total_km2: 36
Italian comune.population_total: 4345
Italian comune.population_demonym: Cortemaggioresi or Magiostrini
Italian comune.elevation_m: 50
Italian comune.saint: San Lorenzo (St. Lawrence)
Italian comune.day: August 10
Italian comune.postal_code: 29016
Italian comune.area_code: 0523
Italian comune.website: Comune di Cortemaggiore

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Encyclopedic overview

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Architecture
Notable people born in Cortemaggiore
Image gallery

The town was founded in 1479 by the Pallavicini family, over an old Roman habitation, which had been the capital of the ancient Stato Pallavicino. In 1949 the Italian entrepreneur Enrico Mattei discovered in Cortemaggiore's subsoil an important oilfield; with this oil a gasoline called Supercortemaggiore was produced, the only one refined from Italian oil.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cortemaggiore” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.