Legnaro 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 Padua

Province of Padua

The Province of Padua is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Padua.-History and territory:...

 in the Italian

Italy

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 region Veneto

Veneto

Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...

, located about 30 km southwest of Venice

Venice

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 and about 11 km southeast of Padua

Padua

Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...

. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,703 and an area of 14.9 km².

The municipality of Legnaro 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) Casone and Volparo.

Legnaro borders the following municipalities: Brugine

Brugine

Brugine is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 50 km west of Venice and about 25 km west of Padua...

, Padua

Padua

Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...

, Polverara

Polverara

Polverara is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 30 km southwest of Venice and about 14 km southeast of Padua...

, Ponte San Nicolò

Ponte San Nicolò

Ponte San Nicolò is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 30 km west of Venice and about 8 km southeast of Padua...

, Sant'Angelo di Piove di Sacco

Sant'Angelo di Piove di Sacco

Sant'Angelo di Piove di Sacco is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 100 km west of Venice and about 70 km west of Padua...

, Saonara

Saonara

Saonara is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 25 km southwest of Venice and about 11 km southeast of Padua. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 9,399 and an area of 13.5 km².Saonara borders the following municipalities: Legnaro,...

.

A Laboratory of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare is the coordinating institution for nuclear, particle and astroparticle physics in Italy. It was founded on the 8th of August 1951, to further the nuclear physics research tradition initiated by Enrico Fermi in Rome, in the 1930s...

is located near Legnaro.

External links

• www.comune.legnaro.pd.it/