Certosa di Pavia (

Pavese dialect Paves is a dialect of Western Lombard language spoken in province of Pavia (Lombardy). In Paves, differently from most of Western Lombard dialects, the "z" (''ts'' or ''dz'') is transformed into "s". In the past, before the influence of Milanese ...

: ''Certusa dè Pavia'' or ''la Certùsa'') is a town and ''

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...

'' (municipality) in the

province of Pavia The province of Pavia ( it, Provincia di Pavia) is a province in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy; its capital is Pavia. , the province has a population of 548,722 inhabitants and an area of ; the town of Pavia has a population of 72,205. ...

Lombardy Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 ...

. It is named after the

Certosa di Pavia The Certosa di Pavia is a monastery and complex in Lombardy, Northern Italy, situated near a small town of the same name in the Province of Pavia, north of Pavia. Built in 1396–1495, it was once located on the border of a large hunting ...

, a large monastery around which the town grew up. As of 2013 its population was of 5,114.

History

The ''comune'' was created in 1929 by the former communes of Torre del Mangano, Torriano and

Borgarello Borgarello is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 25 km south of Milan and about 6 km north of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,188 and an area of 4.8&n ...

(which became again autonomous in 1958).History of the municipality of Certosa di Pavia

Geography

The municipality is located north of

Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...

and 30 km south of

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

. It borders with the municipalities of

Giussago Giussago is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 20 km south of Milan and about 11 km north of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,053 and an area of 24.8&n ...

Marcignago Marcignago is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 25 km southwest of Milan and about 9 km northwest of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,155 and an ...

and Vellezzo Bellini. Its territory is formed by the hamlets (''

frazioni A ''frazione'' (plural: ) is a type of subdivision of a ''comune'' (municipality) in Italy, often a small village or hamlet outside the main town. Most ''frazioni'' were created during the Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Fascist era (1922–1943) as ...

'') of Cascine Calderari, Samperone, Torre del Mangano (municipal seat) and Torriano.

Demographics

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Gallery

File:TorreDelManganoSanMichele.jpg, St. Michael's church in Torre del Mangano File:TorrianoSantApollinare.jpg, St. Apollinare's church in Torriano File:SamperoneSanBrizio.JPG, St. Brizio's church in Samperone

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