Franciacorta
Franciacota is a region in Lombardy, Italy. It is famous for the production of wines: white, sparkling and red.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Adro and Provaglio d’Iseo.
Adro
Town hall
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Adro is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, with a traditional wine-growing vocation favored by its position in the Franciacorta area.
Provaglio d’Iseo
Town hall
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Provaglio d'Iseo is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in the Lombardy region in Italy. Provaglio d'Iseo is located 3 km south of the town Iseo, in the historical region of Franciacorta, famous for its wine production.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clusane and Iseo.
Clusane
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Clusane is a small village of 2,000 inhabitants along the south part of Lake Iseo, in Iseo municipality. It is a village of Franciacorta, a region well known for its wine, especially red and sparkling wine: around the village you can see many vineyards and if you came on late August/September you'll see the grape harvest.
Iseo
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Iseo is a town in Lombardy, in the northern part of Italy. It is not only the most known town by Lake Iseo, but it has many historical buildings such as the medieval Oldofredi Castle, the Parish Church and the first monument ever built to Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Sarnico
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Sarnico is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, about 70 kilometres northeast of Milan and about 20 kilometres east of Bergamo at the southern end of Lake Iseo.
Franciacorta
- Type: region
- Description: geographic region in Italy
- Category: wine-producing region
- Location: Lombardian Alps and Prealps, Lombardy, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
45.6196° or 45° 37′ 10″ northLongitude
10.0012° or 10° 0′ 5″ eastOpen location code
8FQGJ292+RFWikidata ID
Q1248668
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Venetian—“Franciacorta” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ফ্রান্সিয়াকোর্টা”
- Chinese: “弗兰恰科尔塔”
- Dutch: “Franciacorta”
- Estonian: “Franciacorta”
- French: “Franciacorta”
- German: “Franciacorta”
- Hebrew: “פראנצ’קורטה”
- Italian: “Francia Corta”
- Italian: “Franciacorta”
- Japanese: “フランチャコルタ（地名）”
- Latin: “Curtes Francae”
- Latin: “Francia Cohors”
- Latin: “Francia Curta”
- Latin: “Franciacurta”
- Lombard: “Franciacorta”
- Lombard: “Franciacurta”
- Lombard: “Franciacürta”
- Piemontese: “Fransacurta”
- Portuguese: “Franciacorta”
- Spanish: “Franciacorta”
- Swedish: “Franciacorta”
- Venetian: “Fransacurta”
- Venetian: “Franzacurta”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Franciacorta”. Photo: Consorzio Franciacorta, CC BY-SA 3.0.