Follina is a ''
comune'' (municipality) in the
Province of Treviso in the
Italian region
Veneto, located about northwest of
Venice
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and about northwest of
Treviso.
Situated in the Treviso countryside, on the “Strada del Prosecco” (“Prosecco wine route”), it is a village in the landscape of Veneto's pre-Alps.
It is home to the eponymous abbey, built here in 1170 with the patronage of the
Patriarch of Aquileia.
St. Charles Borromeo was its abbot.
Twin towns
Follina is
twinned with:
*
Wipfeld
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Twin towns
Wipfeld is twinned with:
* Follina, Italy
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, Germany
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Cities and towns in Veneto
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