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Cossila is a
It is a borough located some km north-west from the centre of Biella, along the road leading to the
http://www.asbi.it/asb.html?fase=cossila
(accessed: July 2012)
neighbourhood
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of Biella
Biella (; pms, Biela; la, Bugella) is a city and ''comune'' in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, the capital of the province of the same name, with a population of 44,324 as of 31 December 2017. It is located about northeast of Turin an ...
, in Piedmont
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, northern Italy.
Overview
It is a borough located some km north-west from the centre of Biella, along the road leading to the sanctuary of Oropa
The Sanctuary of Oropa ( it, santuario di Oropa) is a group of Roman Catholic buildings and structures in Oropa, frazione of the municipality of Biella, Italy. It is located at a height of 1,159 metres in a small valley of the Alpi Biellesi.
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. From its elongated shape came the Piedmontese
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saying ''Cosila, longa e sotila'' (in English
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: ''Cossila, long and thin'').
Its southernmost part is called ''Cossila San Grato'' and the northernmost one ''Cossila San Giovanni''.
History
Since 1940 Cossila was a separatecomune
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), which also encompassed the village of Favaro.''Comune di Cossila'', care of Archivio di Stato di Biella; web page ohttp://www.asbi.it/asb.html?fase=cossila
(accessed: July 2012)
References
Frazioni of Biella Former municipalities of the Province of Biella {{Biella-geo-stub