Besnate
Besnate | |
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| Comune di Besnate | |
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  Besnate Location o Besnate in Italy | |
| Coordinates: 45°42′N 08°46′E / 45.700°N 8.767°E | |
| Kintra | Italy |
| Region | Lombardy |
| Province | Varese (VA) |
| Frazioni | Buzzano, Centenate |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Dott.sa Donata Bordoni |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7 km2 (3 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 296 m (971 ft) |
| Population (31 December 2004) | |
| • Total | 5,021 |
| • Density | 720/km2 (1,900/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Besnatesi |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 21010 |
| Diallin code | 0331 |
| Patron saunt | San Martino V. |
| Saunt day | 11 November |
| Website | Offeecial wabsteid |
Besnate is a toun an comune in the province o Varese in Lombardy in northren Italy.
The Commune o Besnate haes a laund aurie o 7.68 km ² an a average elevation o 300 meters abuin sea level. At its heichest pynt, the hills o Ravellino, you can reach the 330 meters. It includes the follaein locations, Besnate, Buzzano an Centenate.
It is bordered tae the north bi the municipality o Sumirago, north-east tae Jerago wit Orago, sooth-east tae Cavaria wi Premezzo, sooth tae Gallarate, in the sooth-wast tae north-an Arsago Seprio wast wi that o Mornago. Besnate 17 km frae Varese, 7 km frae Gallarate, 13 km frae Busto Arsizio an 7 km frae Somma Lombardo.
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]The Commune o Besnate haes ayes been unthirlt till 1869, when, bi Ryal Decree No. 4919, wis suppressed an aggregatit wi that o Casorate Sempione, the municipality o Arsago Seprio. Juist a few years later, housomeivver, frae 1 August 1872, Besnate breuk awa frae Arsago Seprio tae jyne Jerago: sicweys wis born the toun o Jerago wi Besnate, which frae 1 Julie 1892, wis the location o aggregate Orago an aw.
Feenally wi the law n ° 48 o 28 Februar 1907, the municipality o Jerago wi Besnate an Orago wis dissolvit an frae 1 Julie 1907 Besnate feenally became an unthirlt municipality. In 2007 the municipality o Besnate, on the occasion o the centenar o the establishment o the toun haed it printit bi the Italian postal souvenir postcairds an stamps.
Geografie
[eedit | eedit soorce]The municipality o Besnate is pairt o the geographical aurie identifee'd as Olona, an is locatit in a hilly aurie atween the Arno river an the River Ticino. In the soothren pairt o Besnate meet the Fontanili, a phenomenon caused bi rainwatter enterin the permeable layers o soil, consistin o boulders, pebbles, graivel an saund an re-emerge on the surface when thay encounter a layer o impermeable cley, formin a muckle aurie o watter springs, which lees tae the east o the provincial road o Gallarate, an tae the fuit o the moraine hills on which pairt o the territory o Jerago wi Orago andCavaria wi Premezzo.
In this wetland Besnate converge some watterweys, the canal Pont-Peder, the Fontanile Fontanile auld an new, which, flowin thegeither, form Sorgiorile the river, the main tributar o the river Arno.
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