Lana is a comune

Comune

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(municipality) in South Tyrol

South Tyrol

South Tyrol , also known by its Italian name Alto Adige, is an autonomous province in northern Italy. It is one of the two autonomous provinces that make up the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The province has an area of and a total population of more than 500,000 inhabitants...

 in the Italian

Italy

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 region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. It is situated between Bolzano and Merano. The population rose to 11,206 in 2010.

It is one of the three municipalities of South Tyrol whose name remained unchanged by the Italian fascist

Italian Fascism

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 renaming programme

Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto Adige

The Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto Adige is a list of Italianized toponyms for mostly German place names in South Tyrol which was published in 1916 by the Royal Italian Geographic Society...

 which aimed at replacing mostly German place names

Toponymy

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 with Italianized

Italianization

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 versions.

Coat-of-arms

The emblem represents a teutonic cross

Teutonic Knights

The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem , commonly the Teutonic Order , is a German medieval military order, in modern times a purely religious Catholic order...

 of sable

Sable (heraldry)

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, on argent

Argent

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, and a gules

Gules

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 rampant lion

Lion (heraldry)

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 on it. The lion is the arms of the Counts of Brandis who played a role in the development of the village. The emblem was adopted in 1967.

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2001 census, 91.80% of Lana's population speak German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, 7.91% Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

, and 0.29% Ladin as first language.

Tourism

Lana is a village which is divided into 3 parts Oberlana, Mitterlana and Niederlana. It is a popular tourist spot offering sports, such as tennis, football, golf, minigolf, ice-skating amongst others. During summer locals and tourists alike enjoy swimming, hiking and cycling because there are a lot of good cycle paths.

External links

Homepage of the municipality