Collegno (; pms, Colegn ) 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 ...
'' (municipality) in the
Metropolitan City of Turin
The Metropolitan City of Turin ( it, Città metropolitana di Torino, Piedmontese: ''Sità metropolitan-a 'd Turin'') is a metropolitan city in the Piedmont region, Italy. Its capital is the city of Turin. It replaced the Province of Turin and ...
in the
Italian region
Piedmont
it, Piemontese
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, located about west of
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
.
It occupies an
alluvial plain
An alluvial plain is a largely flat landform created by the deposition of sediment over a long period of time by one or more rivers coming from highland regions, from which alluvial soil forms. A floodplain is part of the process, being the smal ...
at the end of the
Val di Susa
The Susa Valley ( it, Val di Susa; pms, Valsusa; french: Val de Suse; oc, Val d'Ors) is a valley in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont region of northern Italy, located between the Graian Alps in the north and the Cottian Alps in the south ...
, between
Rivoli and Turin, at the foot of
Monte Musinè. The terminal course of the
Dora Riparia
The Dora Riparia (; pms, Dòira Rivaira; french: Doire Ripaire or ''Doire''; la, Duria minor) is an alpine river, a left-hand tributary of the Po. It is long (of which 5 km in France), with a drainage basin. It originates in the Cottia ...
flows in its territory.
History
Collegno originated as a
Roman
Roman or Romans most often refers to:
* Rome, the capital city of Italy
* Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lett ...
''
mansio
In the Roman Empire, a ''mansio'' (from the Latin word ''mansus,'' the perfect passive participle of ''manere'' "to remain" or "to stay") was an official stopping place on a Roman road, or ''via'', maintained by the central government for the use ...
'' from Turin, known as ''Quintum Collegium'' (hence the modern name). Ancient findings from the area are now in the Museum of Antiquities in Turin.
Curious Facts
From 3 to 8 July 2017, the sports hal
PalaCollegnoguested the troops of
Sport Crime, the first ever sport based international TV series, including main characters and sport personalities
Daniela Scalia and
Luca Tramontin, and other basketball celebrities, like former Italian ace
Alessandro Abbio
Alessandro Abbio (born 13 March 1971 in Racconigi, Province of Cuneo) is an Italian former professional basketball player.
Professional career
Abbio was the MVP of the Italian SuperCup in 1998, and he also won the Euroleague twice; in 1997–9 ...
.
International relations
Collegno is
twinned with:
*
Antony, France
*
Sárospatak, Hungary
*
Volzhsky, Russia
*
Neubrandenburg, Germany
*
Cerdanyola del Vallès
Cerdanyola del Vallès () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of the Vallès Occidental in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the north side of the Collserola ridge. The town is served by the A-7 and C-58 motorways, the N-150 road and the ...
, Spain
*
San Gregorio Magno, Italy
*
Oueslatia
Oueslatia is a town and commune in the Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 8,444. It is also the capital of a delegation with 36,195 inhabitants in the 2006 census.
It is at the center of a plain between the mountain ...
, Tunisia
*
Sarajevo
Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see names in other languages'') is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo ...
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
*
Havířov, Czech Republic
*
Rocchetta Sant'Antonio
Rocchetta Sant'Antonio ( Foggiano: or ) is a town and '' comune'' in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It was part of the province of Avellino
The Province of Avellino ( it, Provincia di Avellino) is a province in ...
, Italy
See also
*
Bruneri-Canella case
The Bruneri-Canella case, called in Italian the case of the ''Smemorato di Collegno'' (the Collegno Amnesiac), is a notorious judicial and media affair concerning the alleged reappearance in 1926 of a man who had gone missing in World War I. The q ...
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Piedmont
Collegno
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