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Sesto Calende is a small municipality (comune) located in Italy. It is situated in the Lombardy region in northern Italy, near Lake Maggiore.
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Official website
Comune di Sesto Calende
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- comune of Italy
- Official name
- Sesto Calende
- Demonym
- sestesi
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Province of Varese
- Population
- 10975
- Area
- 25.04
- Elevation
- 198
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Angera
- Official website
- www.comune.sesto-calende.va.it
- Image
- SestoCalende veduta.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0331
- Licence plate code
- VA
- Patron saint
- Bernardino of Siena
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- postal code
- 21018
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- Sesto Calende
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Encyclopedic overview
Sesto Calende (Lombard: Sest) is a town and comune, with around 11,019 inhabitants, located in the province of Varese, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.
It is at the southern tip of Lake Maggiore, where the river Ticino starts to flow towards the Po. The main historical sight is the Abbey of San Donato, built in the 9th and 10th centuries. It houses a painting by Bernardino Zenale (1503).
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