Crescentino is a ''
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 ...
'' (municipality) in the
Province of Vercelli in the
Italian region
Piedmont
Piedmont ( ; ; ) is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the northwest Italy, Northwest of the country. It borders the Liguria region to the south, the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions to the east, and the Aosta Valley region to the ...
, located about northeast of
Turin
Turin ( , ; ; , then ) 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 from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...
and about southwest of
Vercelli
Vercelli (; ) is a city and ''comune'' of 46,552 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy. One of the oldest urban sites in northern Italy, it was founded, according to most historians, around 600 BC.
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.
Crescentino borders the following municipalities:
Brusasco,
Fontanetto Po,
Lamporo,
Livorno Ferraris,
Moncestino,
Saluggia,
Verolengo, and
Verrua Savoia.
Main sights include
San Genuario Castle.
Twin towns — sister cities
Crescentino is
twinned with:
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San Giorgio Albanese, Italy
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Gmina Łososina Dolna, Poland
People
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Luigi Arditi (1822–1903), violinist and composer
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Ettore Bertolè-Viale (1829-1992), elected deputy for the town 1867-1882
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Bartolomeo Caravoglia (active 1660–1673), painter of the Baroque period
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Fiorenza Cossotto (born 1935), operatic
mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A bel ...
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Domenico Serra, (1899–1965), stage and film actor
References
External links
Official website
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