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Key facts
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Abruzzo
- Province
- L'Aquila (AQ)
- Frazioni
- Cerro, Le Chiuse, Osteria
- Mayor
- Fabrizio Boccabella (Fossa Bene Comune)
- Total
- 8 km (3.1 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 644 m (2,113 ft)
- Density
- 88/km (230/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Fossani
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Dialing code
- 0862
- Website
- Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Fossa (formerly Aveia) is a comune and town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of southern Italy. Bernardino of Fossa was born in the town. The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake contributed to the collapse of a bridge in Fossa, and caused extensive damage to the residential buildings in the town. The town was the epicentre of a major aftershock 5.4 Mw on April 7, 2009.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fossa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.