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Valperga
Sign in to saveValperga is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about north of Turin, in the Canavese historical region.
Valperga is a small town located in the Turin area of northern Italy, in a region with historical significance called Canavese. It is one of many municipalities that make up the greater Turin metropolitan area in the Piedmont region.
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Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Valperga
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Valperga
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Valperga_veduta.jpg
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Valperga-Stemma.png
- Italian comune.region
- Piedmont
- Italian comune.metropolitan_city
- Turin (TO)
- Italian comune.mayor
- Gabriele Francisca
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 11.8
- Italian comune.population_total
- 3180
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 31 December 2014
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Valperghesi
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 10087
- Italian comune.area_code
- 0124
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- comune of Italy
- Official name
- Valperga
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Metropolitan City of Turin
- Population
- 2970
- Area
- 11.91
- Elevation
- 385
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Pratiglione
- Official website
- www.comune.valperga.to.it
- Image
- Valperga veduta.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0124
- Licence plate code
- TO
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- postal code
- 10087
- topic's main category
- Category:Valperga
- Commons category
- Valperga (comune, Italy)
- P13311
- Lahn-Dill-Kreis
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Valperga is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about north of Turin, in the Canavese historical region.
It is home to the Sacro Monte of Belmonte, a site of pilgrimage and worship close to it. The Sacro Monte was built in 1712 at the initiative of the Friar Minor Michelangelo da Montiglio. In 2003, the sanctuary was inserted by UNESCO in the World Heritage List. The Valperga Castle is also located in the town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valperga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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