Cassina de' Pecchi ( ) is a town and ''
comune
A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...
'' in the
Metropolitan City of Milan
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, in
Lombardy
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, northern
Italy
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. The comune is bounded by other communes of
Cernusco sul Naviglio,
Bussero,
Gorgonzola
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Gorg ...
,
Melzo and
Vignate.
Cassina de' Pecchi has received the recognition of "Sustainable city for girls and boys"
in 1999, concerning councils with less than 50000 inhabitants
Twin towns
Cassina de' Pecchi is
twinned with:
*
Élancourt
Élancourt () is a communes of France, commune in the Yvelines departments of France, department, and the Île-de-France region, north central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, 30.6 km (19.0 mi) from the Kilometre Ze ...
, France, since 1997
References
Cities and towns in Lombardy
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