Cornate d'Adda (''Curnàa'' in the
Brianza dialect, and simply Cornate until 1924) is a ''
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 ...
'' of 10,799 inhabitants
in the
province of Monza and Brianza
The province of Monza and Brianza ( it, provincia di Monza e della Brianza; lmo, label= Monzese, provincia de Monscia e de la Brianza) is an administrative province of Lombardy region, Italy.
Description
It was officially created by splitting ...
, and it is 21
km away from
Monza, the
provincial capital
A capital city or capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational entity, usually as its seat of the government. A capital is typically a city that physically encompasses the g ...
. It is part of the ''
Vimercatese'' and of the ''
Parco Adda Nord''. The
''frazioni'' of
Colnago
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and of
Porto d'Adda are part of the municipal territory.
The square of Cornate is called the XV Martyrs, as a re-enactment of the 15 partisans shot in Milan, in
Piazzale Loreto
is a major city square in Milan, Italy.
Origin
The name ''Loreto'' is also used in a wider sense to refer to the district surrounding the square, which is part of the Zone 2 administrative division, in the northeastern part of the city. The ...
, on 10 August 1944 by the
Nazi
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. On 29 May 2018 the
President of the Republic conferred the title of "
City
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
of Cornate d'Adda".
References
External links
Official website(in Italian)
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