Pievepelago
Encyclopedia
Pievepelago is a comune
(municipality) in the Province of Modena
in the Italian
region Emilia-Romagna
, located about 70 km southwest of Bologna
and about 60 km southwest of Modena
. It is a tourist resort in the Modenese Apennines, crossed by the Via Vandelli.
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 Modena
Province of Modena
The Province of Modena is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Modena.It has an area of 2,689 km², and a total population of 659,925 . There are 48 comuni in the province, see Comuni of the Province of Modena.At May 31, 2005, the main comuni by population...
in the Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
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 70 km southwest 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 60 km southwest of Modena
Modena
Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
. It is a tourist resort in the Modenese Apennines, crossed by the Via Vandelli.
Notable people
- Palmiro SerafiniPalmiro SerafiniPalmiro Serafini is an Italian ski mountaineer and former cross-country skier.Serafini was born in Pievepelago. He participated at the 1968 Winter Olympics, when he placed sixth together with Giulio de Florian, Franco Nones and Aldo Stella in the 4 × 10 kilometres relay event of cross-counry skiing...
(b. 1945), ski mountaineer and cross-country skier - Dina Manfredini (b. 1897), the world's third oldest living person as of 2011.