Piombino Dese
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Piombino Dese is a comune
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

 (municipality) in the Province of Padua
Province of Padua
The Province of Padua is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Padua.-History and territory:...

 in the Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 region Veneto
Veneto
Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...

, located about 35 km northwest of Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

 and about 20 km north of Padua
Padua
Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...

. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 8,963 and an area of 29.5 km².

Piombino Dese borders the following municipalities: Camposampiero
Camposampiero
Camposampiero is a town and comune in the province of Padua, Veneto, northern Italy.-Twin towns - sister cities:Camposampiero is twinned with Jasło, Poland, since November 2002...

, Istrana
Istrana
Istrana is a comune in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about 35 km northwest of Venice and about 12 km west of Treviso...

, Loreggia
Loreggia
Loreggia is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 35 km northwest of Venice and about 20 km northeast of Padua...

, Morgano
Morgano
Morgano is a comune in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about 30 km northwest of Venice and about 12 km west of Treviso...

, Resana
Resana
Resana is a comune in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about 35 km northwest of Venice and about 25 km west of Treviso. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 8,186 and an area of 25.0 km²....

, Trebaseleghe
Trebaseleghe
Trebaseleghe is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 25 km northwest of Venice and about 25 km northeast of Padua....

, Vedelago
Vedelago
Vedelago is a comune in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about 35 km northwest of Venice and about 20 km west of Treviso....

, Zero Branco
Zero Branco
Zero Branco is a comune in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about 20 km northwest of Venice and about 10 km southwest of Treviso....

.

Palladio's famous Villa Cornaro
Villa Cornaro
Villa Cornaro is a patrician villa in Piombino Dese, about 30 km northwest of Venice, Italy. It was designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1552 and is illustrated and described by him in Book Two of his 1570 masterwork, I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura [The Four...

can be found in the comunes territory.
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