San Pietro Mosezzo 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 Novara

Province of Novara

Novara is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Novara.It has an area of 1,339 km², and a total population of 365.156 . There are 88 communes in the province.-External links:*...

 in the Italian

Italy

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 region Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

, located about 80 km northeast of Turin

Turin

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 and about 5 km west of Novara

Novara

Novara is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With c. 105,000 inhabitants, it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is an important crossroads for commercial traffic along the routes from Milan to Turin...

. As of 31 July 2010, it had a population of 1,986.

San Pietro Mosezzo is divided in 4 frazioni (wards) — San Pietro (chef-lieu

Chef-lieu

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), Cesto, Mosezzo and Nibbia — and 3 hamlets — Cascinazza, San Stefano and Torre San Pietrina (San Pietro Mosezzo's industrial park) —. Canale Cavour flows across the town.

San Pietro Mosezzo borders the following municipalities: Biandrate

Biandrate

Biandrate is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 km northeast of Turin and about 12 km west of Novara.-History:...

, Briona

Briona

Briona is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 km northeast of Turin and about 15 km northwest of Novara...

, Caltignaga

Caltignaga

Caltignaga is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 90 km northeast of Turin and about 8 km northwest of Novara...

, Casaleggio Novara

Casaleggio Novara

Casaleggio Novara is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 km northeast of Turin and about 10 km northwest of Novara...

, Casalino

Casalino

Casalino is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 km northeast of Turin and about 11 km southwest of Novara...

, Novara

Novara

Novara is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With c. 105,000 inhabitants, it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is an important crossroads for commercial traffic along the routes from Milan to Turin...

, and Vicolungo

Vicolungo

Vicolungo is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 km northeast of Turin and about 12 km northwest of Novara...

.

Architecture

• Parish church of apostle Saint Peter of the 16th century
• Parish of Saints Vito and Modesto of the 12th century
• Parish church of Saints Quirico and Judith in Cesto
• Parish church of Saint Laurence of the 11th century in Nibbia
• Farmstead Motta, whose existence is proven by a bill of sale of August 2, 1380 between Gian Galeazzo Visconti
  Gian Galeazzo Visconti
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   and Antonio Pozzo which transferred the property of the lands of Vinzaglio
  Vinzaglio
  Vinzaglio is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 km northeast of Turin and about 15 km southwest of Novara. It is an agricultural borough in the rice-growing plain of Vercelli....