Affi
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Country | Italy | |
region | Veneto | |
province | Verona (VR) | |
Coordinates | 45 ° 33 ′ N , 10 ° 46 ′ E | |
height | 191 m slm | |
surface | 9.8 km² | |
Residents | 2,366 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density | 241 inhabitants / km² | |
ISTAT number | 023001 | |
Popular name | Affiesi | |
Patron saint | Simon Peter | |
Website | www.comune.affi.vr.it |
Affi (formerly also in German Affy ) is an Italian municipality in the province of Verona in the Italian region of Veneto . Affi has 2366 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) and an area of 9.8 km².
location
The municipality of Affi is located about 120 km west of Venice and about 20 km northwest of Verona . It consists of the districts Affi, Incaffi and Caorsa. It borders the municipalities of Bardolino , Cavaion Veronese , Costermano and Rivoli Veronese . At Affi there is also the motorway exit on the way to the middle eastern shore of Lake Garda.
bunker
Immediately to the west of Affi, in Monte Moscal, there is an underground guidance system that was used by NATO from 1960 to 2007 . The bunker was nicknamed West Star .
Population development
Important personalities
- Girolamo Fracastoro (1476–1553), doctor, astronomer and man of letters of the Renaissance, had his country estate in Incaffi, where he died in 1553.
- Elena Da Persico (1869–1948), politician and journalist
- Andrea Benvenuti (* 1969), athlete
Web links
Commons : Affi - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
- ^ Ernst Siegfried Mittler: Military weekly paper . 14th edition. 1829, p. 4198 ( google.it [accessed July 12, 2020]).