Coni
Coni ( Cuneo in Italian) is a Italian city chief town of the province of the same name in the Piedmont, area of the Plaine of Po.
Coni is known also under the name of “Provincia granda” in Piedmontese dialect, because she was regarded as the province the most extended from Italy (an Italian “provincia” is roughly speaking the administrative equivalent of a French department) even if, indeed, the widest province were up to 2005 that of Sassari, in Sardinia.
Geography
Cuneo is located on the slope is National park of Mercantour, close to the French border (approximately 24km).
History
The town of Coni was the place of " déportation" and of detention of the totality of the population of the village of Moulinet (the Alpes-Maritimes) by the German troops of occupation during the Second world war enters the month of September 1944 and that of April 1945.
Personalities
- Pierre Monod (1586-1644), Jesuit and Savoyard diplomat
- Free Andrea Bonelli (1784-1830), ornithologist, entomologist and collector
- Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932), mathematician
- Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892-1965), type-setter
- Tancredi Duccio Galimberti (1906-1944), lawyer and resistant
- Lalla Romano (1906-2001), écrivaine, journalist and painter
- Piergiorgio Odifreddi (1950), mathematician and writer
- Gianmaria Tested (1958), singer
- Daniela Santanchè (1961) appointed
Administration
Hamlets
San Rocco Castagnaretta, Madonna dell' Olmo, delle Madonna Grazie, Passatore, San Benigno, San Pietro LED Gallo, Cerialdo, Borgo San Giuseppe, Spinetta di Cuneo
Communes bordering
Boves, Cervasca, Vignolo, Beinette, Peveragno, Castelletto Stura, Caraglio, Tarantasca
Economy
Cuneo has an airport ( Aéroport Cuneo Levaldigi , code AITA: CUF).
Twinnings