Ghiffa
Sign in to saveGhiffa (Ghifa in Lombard) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about northeast of Verbania on the western shore of the Lake Maggiore.
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Ghiffa is a small Italian municipality located in the Piedmont region, situated on the western shore of Lake Maggiore near the city of Verbania. It represents one of the many local communities that make up the administrative divisions of northern Italy's provinces.
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Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Ghiffa
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Ghiffa
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Porticato Via Crucis e cappella di San Giovanni Battista - Sacro Monte di Ghiffa - UNESCO patrimonio mondiale dell'umanità (2003).jpg
- Italian comune.image_caption
- Sacro Monte di Ghiffa
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Ghiffa-Stemma.svg
- Italian comune.region
- Piedmont
- Italian comune.province
- Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB)
- Italian comune.frazioni
- Carpiano, Cargiago, Caronio, Ceredo, Deccio, Frino, Ronco, San Maurizio, Selva, Susello
- Italian comune.mayor
- Matteo Lanino
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 13.95
- Italian comune.population_total
- 2385
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Ghiffa (Ghifa in Lombard) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about northeast of Verbania on the western shore of the Lake Maggiore.
It is most famous for the Sacro Monte, a site of pilgrimage and worship close to it, inserted by UNESCO in the World Heritage List.