Alverna
Alverna is a village in the municipality of Wijchen in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. As of 2021, it had a population of 2,525. The village is named after the Alverna monastery founded there in 1887, which in turn is named after La Verna, the mountain in Tuscany where Francis of Assisi is said to have received the stigmata on 17 September 1224.- Village with about 2,480 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (30 feet)
- …is also known as “Alverna, Netherlands”
- Description: village in Wijchen, Netherlands
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3½ km northeast of Alverna
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Alverna
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Latitude
51.8035° or 51° 48′ 13″ north
Longitude
5.75618° or 5° 45′ 22″ east
Open location code
9F37RQ34+9F
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place = village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Alverna” goes by many names.
AlvernaAsturian
AlvernaBasque
AlvernaDutch
AlvernaLadin
AlvernaLuxembourgish
AlvernaMin Nan Chinese
АлвернаRussian
AlvernaTurkish
AlvernaVietnamese
AlvernaWestern Frisian
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