The River Piave next to Belluno.

Comune di Belluno
Country	Italy
Region	Veneto
Province	Belluno (BL)
Altitude	390 m
Area	147.18 km²
Population  - City  - Density	36,112 (as of December 21, 2005) 238/km²
Time zone	CET, UTC+1
Coordinates	46°08′N 12°13′E
Frazioni	see list
Telephone Prefix	0437
Postal Code	32100
Gentilic	Bellunesi
Patron:  - Saint   -Day	Saint Martin 11 November
Mayor	Celeste Bortoluzzi
Website	www.comune.belluno.it

Belluno is a town in Veneto, northern Italy, the capital of the province of Belluno. It has around 36,000 inhabitants. It is one of the 15 municipalities of the National Park of the Dolomites of Belluno. It includes the regions of: Comelico, Cadore; Ampezzo, Agordino; Feltrino e Zoldano. Image File history File links Panorama_Belluno01. ... Image File history File links Panorama_Belluno01. ... Piave (from Latin Plavis ) is a river in north Italy. ... Image File history File links Belluno-Stemma. ... 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... Vèneto is one of the twenty Regions of Italy. ... In Italy, the province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (Regione). ... Belluno (It. ... 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. ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of 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. ... 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. ... The River Piave next to Belluno. ... A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. ... St. ... November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... Vèneto is one of the twenty Regions of Italy. ... In politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ... Belluno (It. ... Mountainous region of Veneto (Province of Belluno) located close to Italy – Austria borderline in the north-east of Italy. ... Cadore, a town and contado (countship) of in the North Italian region of Friuli, is a barren and poor district, watered by the Piave torrent poured forth from the Carnic Alps, and is at no great distance from Tirol. ...

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Fractions

Antole, Bes, Bolzano Bellunese, Caleipo-Sossai, Castion, Castoi, Cavessago, Cet, Chiesurazza, Cirvoi, Col di Piana, Col di Salce, Collungo, Cusighe, Faverga, Fiammoi, Giamosa, Giazzoi, Levego, Madeago, Miér, Nevegal, Orzes, Pedeserva, Pra de Luni, Rivamaor, Safforze, Sala, Salce, San Pietro in Campo, Sopracroda, Sois, Sossai, Tassei, Tisoi, Vignole, Visome.

External links

• Map of Belluno

Veneto · Communes of the province of Belluno

Agordo | Alano di Piave | Alleghe | Arsiè | Auronzo di Cadore | Belluno | Borca di Cadore | Calalzo di Cadore | Canale d'Agordo | Castellavazzo | Cencenighe Agordino | Cesiomaggiore | Chies d'Alpago | Cibiana di Cadore | Colle Santa Lucia | Comelico Superiore | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Danta di Cadore | Domegge di Cadore | Falcade | Farra d'Alpago | Feltre | Fonzaso | Forno di Zoldo | Gosaldo | La Valle Agordina | Lamon | Lentiai | Limana | Livinallongo del Col di Lana | Longarone | Lorenzago di Cadore | Lozzo di Cadore | Mel | Ospitale di Cadore | Pedavena | Perarolo di Cadore | Pieve d'Alpago | Pieve di Cadore | Ponte nelle Alpi | Puos d'Alpago | Quero | Rivamonte Agordino | Rocca Pietore | San Gregorio nelle Alpi | San Nicolò di Comelico | San Pietro di Cadore | San Tomaso Agordino | San Vito di Cadore | Santa Giustina | Santo Stefano di Cadore | Sappada | Sedico | Selva di Cadore | Seren del Grappa | Sospirolo | Soverzene | Sovramonte | Taibon Agordino | Tambre | Trichiana | Vallada Agordina | Valle di Cadore | Vas | Vigo di Cadore | Vodo di Cadore | Voltago Agordino | Zoldo Alto | Zoppè di Cadore