Vaprio d'Adda
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Vaprio d'Adda is a comune
(municipality) in the Province of Milan
in the Italian
region Lombardy
, located about 30 km northeast of Milan
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Vaprio d'Adda borders the following municipalities: Trezzo sull'Adda
, Capriate San Gervasio
, Grezzago
, Canonica d'Adda
, Pozzo d'Adda
, Cassano d'Adda
, Fara Gera d'Adda
.
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 Milan
Province of Milan
The Province of Milan : /) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Milan. The provincial territory is highly urbanized, resulting in the third highest population density among the Italian provinces with more than 2,000 inhabitants/km2, just behind the provinces of...
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 Lombardy
Lombardy
Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...
, located about 30 km northeast of Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
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Vaprio d'Adda borders the following municipalities: Trezzo sull'Adda
Trezzo sull'Adda
Trezzo sull'Adda is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 30 km northeast of Milan on the Adda River.The Naviglio Martesana canal starts from the Adda in Trezzo's territory....
, Capriate San Gervasio
Capriate San Gervasio
Capriate San Gervasio is a comune in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardy, Italy.It is situated on the southern tip of the so-called Bergamasca Island, a territory delimited by the rivers Adda and Brembo. It includes three frazioni at slightly different altitudes, San Gervasio d'Adda , Capriate...
, Grezzago
Grezzago
Grezzago is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 30 km northeast of Milan. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,414 and an area of 2.5 km²....
, Canonica d'Adda
Canonica d'Adda
Canonica d'Adda is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 30 km northeast of Milan and about 15 km southwest of Bergamo....
, Pozzo d'Adda
Pozzo d'Adda
Pozzo d'Adda is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 30 km northeast of Milan. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,903 and an area of 4.2 km²....
, Cassano d'Adda
Cassano d'Adda
Cassano d'Adda is a town and comune in the province of Milan, Lombardy, Italy, located on the right side of the Adda River. It is on the border of the province of Milan and the province of Bergamo.-History:...
, Fara Gera d'Adda
Fara Gera d'Adda
Fara Gera d'Adda is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 30 km northeast of Milan and about 20 km southwest of Bergamo...
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Main sights
- Remains of the church of San Bernardino.
- Romanesque church of San Colombano (12th century)
- Villa MelziFrancesco MelziFrancesco Melzi was an Italian painter, favorite assistant and pupil of Leonardo da Vinci.The son of a Milanese noble family, Melzi joined the household of Leonardo da Vinci in 1506. Melzi accompanied Leonardo on trips to Rome in 1513 and to France in 1517. As a painter, Melzi worked closely with...
, where Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
resided for a while when studying channelling of waters in the Milanese area. It includes a fresco of Madonna with Child attributed to him or his school.