Crescentino 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 Vercelli

Province of Vercelli

Vercelli is a province in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Its capital is Vercelli., it has an area of 2,088 km², and a total population of 176,829...

 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 35 km northeast of Turin

Turin

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 and about 30 km southwest of Vercelli

Vercelli

Vercelli is a city and comune of about 47,000 inhabitants in the Province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy. One of the oldest urban sites in northern Italy, it was founded, according to most historians, around the year 600 BC.The city is situated on the river Sesia in the plain of the river...

. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,843 and an area of 48.3 km².

The municipality of Crescentino contains the frazioni

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...

(subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Campagna, Cerrone, Monte, San Grisante, San Silvestro, San Genuario, Caravini, Porzioni, Santa Maria, Mezzi Po, Galli, Cascinotti, and Lignola.

Crescentino borders the following municipalities: Brusasco

Brusasco

Brusasco is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 30 km northeast of Turin. The main sights are the castle and the Palazzo Ellena, both from the 18th century....

, Fontanetto Po

Fontanetto Po

Fontanetto Po is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km northeast of Turin and about 20 km southwest of Vercelli....

, Lamporo

Lamporo

Lamporo is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 35 km northeast of Turin and about 25 km southwest of Vercelli...

, Livorno Ferraris

Livorno Ferraris

Livorno Ferraris is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km northeast of Turin and about 25 km west of Vercelli....

, Moncestino

Moncestino

Moncestino is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km east of Turin and about 45 km northwest of Alessandria...

, Saluggia

Saluggia

Saluggia is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 30 km northeast of Turin and about 35 km southwest of Vercelli, near the Dora Baltea river....

, Verolengo

Verolengo

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, and Verrua Savoia

Verrua Savoia

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.

Notable Crescentinesi

• Luigi Arditi
  Luigi Arditi
  Luigi Arditi was an Italian violinist, composer and conductor.Arditi was born in Crescentino, Piemonte . He began his musical career as a violinist, and studied music at the Conservatory of Milan. He made his debut in 1843 as a director at Vercelli, and it was there that he was made an honorary...
  
   (1822–1903), violinist, composer and Adelina Patti
  Adelina Patti
  Adelina Patti was a highly acclaimed 19th-century opera singer, earning huge fees at the height of her career in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851 and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914...
  
  ’s favourite conductor.
• Fiorenza Cossotto
  Fiorenza Cossotto
  Fiorenza Cossotto is an Italian mezzo soprano. She is considered by many to be one of the great mezzo-sopranos of the 20th century.-Life and career:...
  
   (born 1935), operatic mezzo soprano