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Porto Ceresio is a small Italian municipality located on the border with Switzerland. It serves as a cross-border community with significance for local trade and travel between the two countries.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- comune of Italy
- Official name
- Porto Ceresio
- Demonym
- portoceresini
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Province of Varese
- Population
- 2854
- Area
- 5.34
- Elevation
- 280
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Brusino Arsizio
- Official website
- www.comune.portoceresio.va.it
- Image
- Portoceresio0001.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0332
- Licence plate code
- VA
- Patron saint
- Ambrose
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- postal code
- 21050
- Commons category
- Porto Ceresio
- twinned administrative body
- Augustów
- Commons gallery
- Porto Ceresio
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Encyclopedic overview
Porto Ceresio (Varesino: Pòrt Cerési) is a comune (municipality) on Lake Lugano in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 kilometres (31 miles) northwest of Milan and about 11 km (7 mi) northeast of Varese, on the border with Switzerland. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,080 and an area of 5.1 square kilometres (2.0 sq mi).
Porto Ceresio borders the following municipalities: Besano, Brusimpiano, Brusino Arsizio (Switzerland), Cuasso al Monte, Meride (Switzerland), Morcote (Switzerland). The Comune is situated not far away from the Cinque Vette Park
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Porto Ceresio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.