Novara (ita)

Novara

Novara ranks 1,373rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Heraklion, Ancona, and Kingston, Ontario. Memorable people born in Novara include Peter Lombard, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, and Giovanni Lajolo. Memorable people who died in Novara include Isabella Leonarda, Lorenzo Antonetti, and Bernard of Menthon. Novara has been the birth place of many religious figures, and politicians and the death place of many religious figures, and composers. Novara is located in Italy.

Novara is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With 101,916 inhabitants, it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is an important crossroads for commercial traffic along the routes from Milan to Turin and from Genoa to Switzerland. Novara lies between the streams Agogna and Terdoppio in northeastern Piedmont, 50 km (31 mi) from Milan and 95 km (59 mi) from Turin. It is only 15 km (9.3 mi) distant from the river Ticino, which marks the border with Lombardy region. Read more on Wikipedia