Canossa

Canossa is a comune and castle town in the , , northern . It is where Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV did penance in 1077 and stood three days bare-headed in the snow to reverse his excommunication by Pope Gregory VII.
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  • Type: Municipality with 3,840 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “035018”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castello di Rossena and IT4030014 - SIC - Rupe di Campotrera, Rossena.

Castle
Photo: Parma1983, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a castle.

Nature reserve
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is a nature reserve.

Church
Photo: GiorgioGaleotti, CC BY 4.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bazzano and Grassano Chiesa.

Village
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is a village.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Village
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is a frazione of the comune of , in the province of Reggio nell'Emilia, in the region of Emilia Romagna. The population is estimated at around 66 inhabitants. The village is located 584 meters above sea level.

Canossa

Latitude
44.5536° or 44° 33′ 13″ north
Longitude
10.4119° or 10° 24′ 43″ east
Population
3,840
Elevation
207 metres (679 feet)
Open location code
8FPGHC36+CQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4411536479
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
6536351
Wiki­data ID
Q111144
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Canossa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كانوسا”
  • Armenian: “Կանոսա”
  • Basque: “Canossa”
  • Breton: “Canossa”
  • Bulgarian: “Каноса”
  • Catalan: “Canossa”
  • Cebuano: “Canossa”
  • Chechen: “Каносса”
  • Chinese: “Canossa”
  • Chinese: “卡诺莎”
  • Czech: “Canossa”
  • Dutch: “Canossa”
  • Esperanto: “Canossa”
  • Finnish: “Canossa”
  • French: “Canossa”
  • German: “Canossa”
  • Greek: “Κανόσσα”
  • Hebrew: “קנוסה”
  • Hungarian: “Canossa”
  • Indonesian: “Canossa”
  • Interlingua: “Canossa”
  • Irish: “Canossa”
  • Italian: “Canossa”
  • Italian: “Comune di Canossa”
  • Japanese: “カノッサ”
  • Kazakh: “Каносса”
  • Korean: “카노사”
  • Kurdish: “Canossa”
  • Ladin: “Canossa”
  • Latin: “Canusia”
  • Lombard: “Canossa”
  • Malay: “Canossa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Canossa”
  • Neapolitan: “Canossa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Canossa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canossa”
  • Persian: “کانوسا”
  • Piemontese: “Canossa”
  • Polish: “Kanossa”
  • Portuguese: “Canossa”
  • Romanian: “Canossa”
  • Russian: “Каносса”
  • Serbian: “Canossa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Canossa”
  • Silesian: “Canossa”
  • Slovak: “Canossa”
  • Slovenian: “Canossa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانوسا”
  • Spanish: “Canossa”
  • Swedish: “Canossa”
  • Tagalog: “Canossa”
  • Tatar: “Каносса”
  • Turkish: “Canossa”
  • Ukrainian: “Каносса”
  • Uzbek: “Canossa”
  • Venetian: “Canossa”
  • Vietnamese: “Canossa”
  • Volapük: “Canossa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Canossa”
  • “Canòsa”
  • “Canossa”

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