Bagnone 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 Massa-Carrara

Province of Massa-Carrara

The Province of Massa and Carrara , until 2009 Province of Massa-Carrara, is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is named after the two main towns in its territory: Carrara and Massa, its capital.-History:...

 in the Italian

Italy

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 region Tuscany

Tuscany

Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....

, located about 120 km northwest of Florence

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

 and about 35 km northwest of Massa

Massa

Massa is a town and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, the administrative centre of the province of Massa-Carrara. It is located in the Frigido River Valley, near the Alpi Apuane, some 5 kilometers from the Tyrrhenian Sea....

 in the Lunigiana

Lunigiana

The Lunigiana is an historical territory of Italy, which today falls within the provinces of La Spezia and Massa Carrara. Its borders derive from the ancient Roman settlement, later the medieval diocese of Luni, which no longer exists....

, facing the Monte Sillara

Monte Sillara

Monte Sillara is the highest peak in the Appennino, a sub-chain of the central Apennines in the province of Parma, north Italy. It has an altitude of 1,861 m...

 (1,861 m). The communal territory is crossed by the Bagnone torrent, a left affluence of the Magra

Magra

The Magra is a 62 km river of Northern Italy, which runs through Pontremoli, Villafranca in Lunigiana and Aulla in the province of Massa-Carrara ; Santo Stefano di Magra, Vezzano Ligure, Arcola, Sarzana and Ameglia in the province of La Spezia .In Roman times it was known as the Macra and marked...

 River.

Sights include the castle, the churches of San Niccolò (rebuilt in the 18th century, including a 15th century Madonna del Pianto from the medieval edifice) and San Leonardo (1785) and the oratory of San Terenzio (housing 17th century paintings).

On Saturday 22 August 2009, Ugo Verni, a player from Bagnone won an estimated €

Euro

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146.9 million (£

Pound sterling

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128 million / US$

United States dollar

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211 million) in Italy's SuperEnalotto

SuperEnalotto

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. This is thought to be Europe's biggest ever lottery win, and is one of the biggest wins ever anywhere

Lottery jackpot records

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