The Commune of Conzano is a municipality lying to the south of Casale Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

Casale Monferrato, population 36,058, is a town and comune in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, part of the province of Alessandria. It is situated about 60 km east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrato hills. Beyond the river lies the...

 in the north-west Italian

Italy

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 Province of Alessandria

Province of Alessandria

The Province of Alessandria is an Italian province, with a population of some 430,000, which forms the southeastern part of the region of Piedmont. The provincial capital is the city of Alessandria....

. Its neighbouring communes, in addition to Casale are Camagna Monferrato

Camagna Monferrato

Camagna Monferrato is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 60 km east of Turin and about 20 km northwest of Alessandria....

, Lu

Lu (AL)

Lu is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 60 km east of Turin and about 14 km northwest of Alessandria.-External links:*...

, and Occimiano

Occimiano

Occimiano is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 60 km east of Turin and about 20 km northwest of Alessandria...

.

The municipal territory extends over a predominantly rural area of 11.62 km2; its population of about 1000 is concentrated in two centres: the small hill town of Conzano, the capoluogo of the commune and site of the town hall, and the village of San Maurizio. The latter’s formal status as a frazione

Frazione

A frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...

, with an identity historically distinct from that of Conzano, is recognised in the Statuto Comunale.

Conzano

Conzano, the principal centre of the commune and its capoluogo, stands on a hill (262 m) which rises on the north-western side of the valley of the Grana

Grana del Monferrato

The Grana del Monferrato is a small Italian river, classified as a torrente, a right tributary of the Po, which runs almost entirely in the Province of Alessandria among the hills of the Basso Monferrato which lie between the Po to the north and the Tanaro to the south...

 torrent. The parish church of Santa Lucia is herehttp://www.comuni-italiani.it/006/061/ and the Villa Viduahttp://www.castelliaperti.it/ita/popup_castelli.lasso?id=996, the country seat of the Vidua family who were Counts of Conzano. The villa, which is open to the public, is particularly known for its interior decorations in the “Chinese

Chinoiserie

Chinoiserie, a French term, signifying "Chinese-esque", and pronounced ) refers to a recurring theme in European artistic styles since the seventeenth century, which reflect Chinese artistic influences...

” manner.

San Maurizio

San Maurizio is a small village on the right side of the Rotaldo

Rotaldo

The Rotaldo, known in its upper course as the Laio, is a 40 km river of northern Italy, and a right-side tributary of the Po. Most of its course falls within the Province of Alessandria; all of it within the former Province of Casale...

 and some 7 km to the north of Conzano. It is the location of an Abbey of San Maurizio.http://www.comuni-italiani.it/006/061/

Twin town

Ingham

Ingham, Queensland

Ingham is a town in the Great Green Way region of North Queensland, Australia. The town was founded in 1864, gazetted a shire in 1879, and is the service centre for many sugarcane plantations, pioneered in the 1870s by William Ingham, for whom the town is named...

, a town with some 4,700 inhabitants in the Australia

Australia

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n state

States and territories of Australia

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 of Queensland

Queensland

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, has been twinned with Conzano since 1993.

External links

• www.comune.conzano.al.it/