Piove di Sacco
Piove di Sacco is a northern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 19,462 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) in the Province of Padua in Veneto. The municipality is located on the Brenta Cunetta about 15 kilometers southeast of Padua and 25 km southwest of Venice.
Demographics
Traffic
Piove di Sacco is on the railway line Mestre - Adriatic Sea, which is partly single track and even partially electrified.
Twin Cities
Piove di Sacco has two sister cities: Send ( Bavaria ) in Germany and Kobierzyce in Poland.
Personalities
- Guariento di Arpo (around 1310-1370 ), painter
- Andrea Longo ( b. 1975 ), middle-distance runners ( 800 m)
- Cristian Sanavia ( born 1975 ), boxer, former world champion (WBC ) super middleweight
- Diego Valeri (1887-1976), poet
- Francesco Zabarella (1360-1417), Cardinal of the Catholic Church