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Encyclopedia > Avola (SR)
Comune di Avola
Coat of Arms of Comune di Avola
Country Italy
Region Sicily
Province Syracuse (SR)
Elevation 40 m
Area 74.27 km²
Population
 - City
 - Density

31,650 (as of 2004-12-31)
420/km²
Time zone CET, UTC+1
Coordinates 36°55′N 15°08′E
Frazioni Marina di Avola, Lido di Avola
Dialling code 0931
Postal code 96012
Gentilic Avolesi
Patron:
 - Saint
 - Day

Santa Venera
Last Sunday in July
Mayor Albino di Giovanni (since 2002-06-11
Website www.comune.avola.sr.it
For the Italian noble family see Avola

Avola (Sicilian: Aula) is a city and commune in the province of Syracuse, Sicily (Italy). Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitutions role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws... Sicilian redirects here. ... In Italy, the province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (Regione). ... Syracuse (It. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of UTC+1 time zone, 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... It has been suggested that leap second be merged into this article or section. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ... A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other subdivisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere. ... Here are a list of area codes in Italy. ... A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... Line of Lords and later Marquiss in Sicily. ... Sicilian (, Italian: ) is the Romance language spoken in Sicily and southern Italy. ... Syracuse (It. ... Sicilian redirects here. ...






 
 

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