Formazza
title: "Formazza" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cities-and-towns-in-piedmont"] topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formazza" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Formazza |
| official_name | Comune di Formazza |
| native_name | wae |
| image_skyline | Veduta alpi formazzine.JPG |
| image_caption | Mountains in Formazza |
| image_shield | Formazza-Stemma.svg |
| coordinates | |
| region | Piedmont |
| province | Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB) |
| frazioni | Foppiano, Antillone, Fondovalle, Chiesa, Valdo, San Michele, Ponte (communal seat), Brendo, Grovella, Canza, Sotto Frua, La Frua, Riale |
| mayor | Bruna Piera Papa |
| area_total_km2 | 130.65 |
| population_footnotes | |
| population_total | 438 |
| population_as_of | 30 June 2017 |
| population_demonym | Formazzini |
| elevation_m | 1280 |
| postal_code | 28030 |
| area_code | 0324 |
| website | |
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| name = Formazza | official_name = Comune di Formazza | native_name = wae | image_skyline = Veduta alpi formazzine.JPG | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = Mountains in Formazza | image_shield = Formazza-Stemma.svg | shield_alt = | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | coordinates = | coordinates_footnotes = | region = Piedmont | province = Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB) | frazioni=Foppiano, Antillone, Fondovalle, Chiesa, Valdo, San Michele, Ponte (communal seat), Brendo, Grovella, Canza, Sotto Frua, La Frua, Riale | mayor_party = | mayor = Bruna Piera Papa | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 130.65 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 438 | population_as_of = 30 June 2017 | pop_density_footnotes = | population_demonym = Formazzini | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 1280 | twin1 = | twin1_country = | saint = | day = | postal_code = 28030 | area_code = 0324 | website = | footnotes = Formazza (; ; ) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 160 km northeast of Turin and about 50 km north of Verbania, on the border with Switzerland.
Formazza borders the following municipalities: Baceno, Bedretto (Switzerland), Bignasco (Switzerland), Binn (Switzerland), Bosco/Gurin (Switzerland), Cavergno (Switzerland), Premia, Reckingen-Gluringen (Switzerland), Ulrichen (Switzerland).
The village was founded by Walser and Walser German is still spoken.
|type= |footnote= Source: ISTAT 2012 |1861|656 |1871|683 |1881|654 |1901|515 |1911|499 |1921|517 |1931|659 |1936|748 |1951|732 |1961|648 |1971|577 |1981|547 |1991|461 |2001|448 |2011|442
Geography and climate
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The village is situated about an elevation of 1200 m above sea level on the Formazza plateau in Formazza valley. Its altitude and location directly under the high mountains of the western Alps influences the climate. In fact, there is an average of more than one meter and thirty centimeters of precipitation per year (especially snow). The climate is the type Dfb/Dfc (Köppen climate classification), which means it is a humid continental climate with fresh and short summers (but usually there is no dry season). The annual average temperature at one local weather station is about 4 °C and usually the coldest month (January) has a daily mean temperature of about -4 C. The lowest values can reach about -20 °C. The hottest month (July) has an average temperature of about 13 °C and the summer lasts less than three months.
''Frazioni''
Frazioni, or subdivisions of Formazza (first name in Italian, second name in Walser):
- Antillone / Puneigä
- Brendo / In dä Brendu
- Canza / Früttwald - Früduwald
- Chiesa - Alla Chiesa / Zer Chilchu - Andermatten - An där Mattu - In där Mattu
- Fondovalle / Stafelwald - Schtaafuwaald
- Foppiano / Untermstalden - Unnerum Schtaldä
- Frua / Uf der Frütt
- Sotto Frua / Unter der Frütt
- Grovella / Gurfelen - Gurfelä
- Morasco / Moraschg
- Ponte - Al Ponte / Zum Steg - Zumstäg - Zumschtäg - Zer Briggu
- Riale / Kehrbäch(i) - Cherbäch
- Valdo / Wald - Waald
- San Michele / Tuffwaald - Tuffalt
People
- Mario Bacher (b. 1941), ski mountaineer and cross-country skier
References
References
- All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute [[National Institute of Statistics (Italy). Istat]].
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