Somma Lombardo is a town in the
province of Varese
The province of Varese ( it, provincia di Varese) is a Provinces of Italy, province in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. Its capital is the city of Varese (population of 80,857 inhabitants), but its largest city is Busto Arsizio. The head ...
,
Lombardy
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,
Italy
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. It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on 16 June 1959.
Industry
The airline
Neos has its head office in the city.
History
The town was strategically located on the consular
Roman road
Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...
, passing from the town of
Sesto Calende
Sesto Calende is a town and ''comune'' located in the province of Varese, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.
It is at the southern tip of Lake Maggiore, where the Ticino River starts to flow towards the Po River. The main historical sight ...
and linking
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 ...
to
Verbano.
In medieval times, the city was under the jurisdiction of the nearby town of
Arsago Seprio
Arsago Seprio is a town and ''comune'' located in the province of Varese, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy
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, an important political centre of the region.
In the forest around Somma, various vestiges of trenches and landing strips dating back to the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
can still be found.
People
*
Giuseppina Aliverti
Giuseppina Aliverti (1894 – 1982) was an Italian geophysicist specializing in several fields of terrestrial physics. She is remembered for developing the Aliverti-Lovera method of measuring the radioactivity of water.
Biography
Born in Somma ...
(1894–1982), geophysicist remembered for developing the Aliverti-Lovera method of measuring the radioactivity of water
* Niccolò Sfondrati,
Pope Gregory XIV
Pope Gregory XIV ( la, Gregorius XIV; it, Gregorio XIV; 11 February 1535 – 16 October 1591), born Niccolò Sfondrato or Sfondrati, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 5 December 1590 to his death in October ...
*
Valerio Valeri
Valerio Valeri (7 November 1883 – 22 July 1963) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious in the Roman Curia from 1953 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate ...
, anthropologist
References
External links
Official site of Somma Lombardo Municipality
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