Lusiana | |
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ex Comune di Lusiana | |
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Coordinates: 45°47′N 11°34′E / 45.783°N 11.567°E | |
Country | Italy |
Region | Veneto |
Province | Vicenza (VI) |
Frazioni | Campana, Laverda, Santa Caterina, Valle di Sotto, Velo, Vitarolo |
Government | |
• Mayor | Antonella Corradin |
Area | |
• Total | 34 km2 (13 sq mi) |
Elevation | 752 m (2,467 ft) |
Population (28 February 2017)[2] | |
• Total | 2,615 |
• Density | 77/km2 (200/sq mi) |
Demonym | Lusianesi |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | 36046 |
Dialing code | 0424 |
ISTAT code | 024054 |
Patron saint | San Giacomo il Maggiore |
Saint day | 25 July |
Website | Official website |
Lusiana (Cimbrian / German: Lusaan) is a small town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, in the comune of Lusiana Conco. The town is situated at about 750 metres (2,460 ft) above sea level on the Asiago plateau .
The small town is the birthplace of Sonia Maino Gandhi, wife of Rajiv Gandhi, the former prime minister of India. She was born in a neighborhood called “Màini” where families with the family name “Màino” had been living for many generations.[3][4][5][6]
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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