Vado Ligure
Vado Ligure | |
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| Comune di Vado Ligure | |
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Location of Vado Ligure  | |
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| Postal code | 17047 |
| Dialing code | 019 |
| Patron saint | St. John the Baptist |
| Saint day | 24 June |
| Website | Official website |
Vado Ligure (
Ligurian: Voæ), in antiquity Vada Sabatia, is a town and comune in the province of Savona, Liguria, in northern Italy
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Economy
Vado has a large industrial and commercial port.
Vado Ligure is home to a railway construction plant, founded in 1905 as
Tecnomasio Italia Brown Boveri and, since 2001, it has been part of Bombardier Transportation. It currently produces the FS Class E.464
locomotives.
The town's territory also includes an electric power plant, whose two towers, 200 metres (660 ft) high, are visible for kilometers in the neighbourhood.
Twin towns
La Ravoire, France, since 2002[3]
References
- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Vado Ligure in festa per i 15 anni del gemellaggio internazionale - IVG.it". 28 September 2018.
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