Canossa
Canossa is a comune and castle town in the Province of Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Parma1983, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Emanuela Rabotti, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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.
IT4030014 - SIC - Rupe di Campotrera, Rossena
Nature reserve
Photo: Vaferr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
IT4030014 - SIC - Rupe di Campotrera, Rossena is a nature reserve.
Canossa Castle
Photo: Parma1983, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Castle of Canossa is a castle in Canossa, province of Reggio Emilia, northern Italy, especially known for being the location of the Road to Canossa, the meeting of Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bazzano and Gombio.
Gombio
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Gombio is a frazione of the comune of Castelnovo ne' Monti, 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
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.5536° or 44° 33′ 13″ northLongitude
10.4119° or 10° 24′ 43″ eastPopulation
3,840Elevation
207 metres (679 feet)Open location code
8FPGHC36+CQOpenStreetMap ID
node 4411536479OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityGeoNames ID
6536351Wikidata ID
Q111144
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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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Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Canossa”. Photo: Emanuela Rabotti, CC BY-SA 4.0.