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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- comune of Italy
- Official name
- Serra San Bruno
- Demonym
- serresi
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Province of Vibo Valentia
- Population
- 6289
- Area
- 40.57
- Elevation
- 790
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Stilo
- Official website
- www.comune.serrasanbruno.vv.it
- Image
- Serra chiesa madre san biagio.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0963
- Licence plate code
- VV
- Patron saint
- Bruno of Cologne
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- twinned administrative body
- Toronto
- Commons category
- Serra San Bruno
- postal code
- 89822
- Commons gallery
- Serra San Bruno
- P11012
- Kilkenny City A.F.C.
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Encyclopedic overview
Serra San Bruno (Calabrian: La Serra) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabria, located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of Catanzaro and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) southeast of Vibo Valentia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 6,966 and an area of 39.6 square kilometres (15.3 mi).
Close by is the famous Carthusian monastery, Serra San Bruno Charterhouse (Certosa di Santo Stefano di Serra San Bruno), around which the town grew up. The town is named after Saint Bruno of Cologne, who founded the Carthusian Order in 1053 and the Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the Carthusians, near Grenoble, in France. He built the charterhouse of Serra San Bruno in 1095, and died here in 1101.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Serra San Bruno” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.