Cerano 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 90 km northeast of Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 and about 14 km southeast 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 December 2004, it had a population of 6,792 and an area of 32.1 km².

Cerano borders the following municipalities: Abbiategrasso

Abbiategrasso

Abbiategrasso is a comune and town in the province of Milan, Italian region of Lombardy, situated in the Po valley approximately 22 km from Milan and 38 km from Pavia.- History :The town dates from Roman times...

, Boffalora sopra Ticino

Boffalora sopra Ticino

Boffalora sopra Ticino is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 25 km west of Milan...

, Cassolnovo

Cassolnovo

Cassolnovo is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 30 km southwest of Milan and about 35 km northwest of Pavia...

, Magenta, Robecco sul Naviglio

Robecco sul Naviglio

Robecco sul Naviglio is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 20 km west of Milan.-External links:*...

, Sozzago

Sozzago

Sozzago is a comune in the province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 90 km northeast of Turin and about 10 km southeast of Novara....

, and Trecate

Trecate

Trecate is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 90 km northeast of Turin and about 9 km east of Novara....

.

The Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 painter Giovanni Battista Crespi

Giovanni Battista Crespi

Giovanni Battista Crespi , called Il Cerano, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect,-Biography:...

is known as il Cerano because he resided here.

External links

• www.comune.cerano.no.it/