Lusiana

Lusiana
Lusaan (Cimbrian)
Frazione
View of Lusiana
View of Lusiana
Lusiana is located in Italy
Lusiana
Lusiana
Location of Lusiana in Italy
Coordinates: 45°47′N 11°34′E / 45.783°N 11.567°E / 45.783; 11.567
CountryItaly
RegionVeneto
ProvinceVicenza (VI)
ComuneLusiana Conco
Area
 • Total
34 km2 (13 sq mi)
Elevation
752 m (2,467 ft)
Population
 (28 February 2017)
 • Total
2,615
 • Density77/km2 (200/sq mi)
DemonymLusianesi
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
36046
Dialing code0424
Patron saintSan Giacomo il Maggiore
Saint day25 July
WebsiteOfficial website

Lusiana (Cimbrian: Lusaan) is a small town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, administratively a frazione (borough) in the comune (municipality) of Lusiana Conco, which resulted from its merger with Conco in 2019. The town is situated at about 750 metres (2,460 ft) above sea level on the Asiago plateau.

Notable people

The small town is the birthplace of Sonia Maino Gandhi, widow of Rajiv Gandhi, the former prime minister of India. She was born in a neighborhood called Maini where families with the family name Maino had been living for many generations.

References

  1. ↑ All demographics and other statistics from the Italian statistical institute (Istat)
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-09-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑
    • (from "The Newspaper of Vicenza", year 2004: un article about Lusiana and Sonia Gandhi with another picture of her native house.)
  4. ↑ "Patrimonio immobiliare - Consorzio Turistico Vicenzaè".
  5. ↑ Rani Singh (2011). "part I, "from Italy to Britain"". Sonia Gandhi, an Extraordinary Life, an Indian Destiny. foreword by Michael Gorbachev. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 9–10. ISBN 9780230340534. Sonia Gandhi was born Edvige Antonia Albina Maino to Stefano and Paola Maino on December 9, 1946, in Lusiana, a tiny town of fewer than 3000 inhabitants, nestled quietly in the crisp air of the verdant lower Alps of northeast Italy.⟨.....⟩ The quarter of Lusiana where the family lived - in a gray-fronted house with wooden shutters at the windows - was called Màini; people with the Maino surname had been there for several generations