Borgonovo Val Tidone is a comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Piacenza

Province of Piacenza

The Province of Piacenza is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Piacenza.The province has 273,689 inhabitants . Its total area is 2,589 km². There are 48 comuni in the province, see Comuni of the Province of Piacenza...

 in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna

Emilia–Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The capital is Bologna; it has an area of and about 4.4 million inhabitants....

, located about 160 km northwest of Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

 and about 20 km west of Piacenza

Piacenza

Piacenza is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza...

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Borgonovo Val Tidone borders the following municipalities: Agazzano

Agazzano

Agazzano is a comune in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 150 km northwest of Bologna and about 20 km southwest of Piacenza...

, Castel San Giovanni

Castel San Giovanni

Castel San Giovanni is a town and comune in the province of Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- History :...

, Gragnano Trebbiense

Gragnano Trebbiense

Gragnano Trebbiense is a comune in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region, Emilia-Romagna, located about 150 km northwest of Bologna and about 11 km southwest of Piacenza....

, Nibbiano

Nibbiano

Nibbiano is a comune in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 170 km northwest of Bologna and about 35 km southwest of Piacenza...

, Pianello Val Tidone

Pianello Val Tidone

Pianello Val Tidone is a comune in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 160 km northwest of Bologna and about 25 km southwest of Piacenza...

, Rottofreno

Rottofreno

Rottofreno is a comune in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 160 km northwest of Bologna and about 12 km west of Piacenza....

, Sarmato

Sarmato

Sarmato is a comune in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 160 km northwest of Bologna and about 15 km west of Piacenza...

, Ziano Piacentino

Ziano Piacentino

Ziano Piacentino is a comune in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 160 km northwest of Bologna and about 25 km west of Piacenza...

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The frazione of Bilegno was the birth place of the luthier

Luthier

A luthier is someone who makes or repairs lutes and other string instruments. In the United States, the term is used interchangeably with a term for the specialty of each maker, such as violinmaker, guitar maker, lute maker, etc...

 Giovambattista Guadagnini. The town was founded in 1196 by the commune

Medieval commune

Medieval communes in the European Middle Ages had sworn allegiances of mutual defense among the citizens of a town or city. They took many forms, and varied widely in organization and makeup. Communes are first recorded in the late 11th and early 12th centuries, thereafter becoming a widespread...

 of Piacenza as a fortified outpost with a rectangular plan. This Rocca

Rocca (architecture)

Rocca is an Italian term meaning a high, fortifiable stronghold, usually located in smaller towns, beneath or on which the village or town clustered, within which its inhabitants might take refuge at times of trouble; under its owners' patronage the settlement might hope to find prosperity in...

is now the town hall.

Notable people

• Francesco Alberoni
  Francesco Alberoni
  |right|150px|Franesco AlberoniFrancesco Alberoni is an Italian Journalist, and professor in Sociology...
  
   (born 1929), a sociologist, journalist, and professor of sociology, was chairman of RAI
  RAI
  RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...
  
  , the national Italian broadcaster, from 2002-2005.

External links

• Official website