Salo (Italian: Salò) is a small town in the Province of Brescia in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy on the banks of Lake Garda. Regions of Italy Provisions for at least some degree of regional autonomy were made in the 1948 constitution, which states the constitutions role is; recoginize, protect and promote local autonomy, that State level services have the greatest decentralization, and adapt the principles and laws establishing autonomy and decentralization. ... Lombardy (It. ... In Italy, the Province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (regione). ... Province of Brescia is a Province in Lombardy, Italy. ... In geography, location is a position or point in physical space expressed relative to the position of another point or thing. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. ... Population density can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. ... Elevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... Here are a list of postal codes in Italy: Lazio 00000-00999 00010 - San Gregorio da Sassola, SAN POLO DEI CAVALIERI, GALLICANO NEL LAZIO, POLI, SANTANGELO ROMANO, CASAPE, MARCELLINA, MONTEFLAVIO, MONTELIBRETTI, MONTORIO ROMANO, MORICONE 00012 - GUIDONIA MONTECELIO 00013 - MENTANA 00015 - MONTEROTONDO 00017 - NEROLA 00018 - PALOMBARA SABINA 00019 - TIVOLI 00020... Here are a list of area codes in Italy. ... Prior to 1994 and resuming in 1999, Italian automobile license plates bear an alphabetic code which tells in which region the automobile was registered. ... Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) is the Italian national statistical institute, roughly corresponding to the United States Census Bureau. ... Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. ... Province of Brescia is a Province in Lombardy, Italy. ... Lombardy (It. ... The Italian Republic or Italy (Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. ... Lake Garda is the largest lake in Italy. ...

Salo was founded in the Roman period as Pagus Salodium and in the middle ages became a stronghold of the Milanese Visconti family. From 1440 the town came under the control of the Republic of Venice. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Visconti was a noble family that ruled Milan during the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance period. ... For alternative meanings, see number 1440. ... Venice is known for its waterways and gondolas Gondola. ...

From 1943 to 1945 Salo was the capital of Mussolini's Nazi-backed Repubblica Sociale Italiana (Italian Social Republic), also known as the Republic of Salo. 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Benito Mussolini created a fascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. ... The Italian Social Republic (Repubblica Sociale Italiana in Italian), also known as the Republic of Salò, was a fascist puppet state in German-occupied northern Italy. ...

External links

• Mapquest - Salo (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?tb=1&city=Salo&country=IT)
• Accommodations and info about Salò (http://www.gardayou.com/accother/salo.htm)