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The Province of Vicenza (Provincia di Vicenza) is a province
Provinces of Italy

In Italy, a province is an administrative division of intermediate level between municipality and Regions of Italy .|||}A province is composed of many municipalities, and usually several provinces form a region....
 in the Veneto
Veneto

Veneto or Venetia , is one of the 20 Regions of Italy of Italy. Its population is about 4.8 million, and its capital is Venice. Once the cradle of the renowned Republic of Venice, then a land of mass emigration, Veneto is today among the wealthiest and most industrialized regions of Italy....
 region of northern Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. Its capital is the city of Vicenza
Vicenza

Vicenza, a city in northern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province of Vicenza in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione....
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The province has an area of 2,723 kmē, and a total population of 840,000 (2006). There are 121 communes (municipalities) in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see ).






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The Province of Vicenza (Provincia di Vicenza) is a province
Provinces of Italy

In Italy, a province is an administrative division of intermediate level between municipality and Regions of Italy .|||}A province is composed of many municipalities, and usually several provinces form a region....
 in the Veneto
Veneto

Veneto or Venetia , is one of the 20 Regions of Italy of Italy. Its population is about 4.8 million, and its capital is Venice. Once the cradle of the renowned Republic of Venice, then a land of mass emigration, Veneto is today among the wealthiest and most industrialized regions of Italy....
 region of northern Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. Its capital is the city of Vicenza
Vicenza

Vicenza, a city in northern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province of Vicenza in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione....
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The province has an area of 2,723 kmē, and a total population of 840,000 (2006). There are 121 communes (municipalities) in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see ). The province's president is Attilio Schneck
Attilio Schneck

Attilio Schneck is an Italian Venetism politician. He is member of the Liga Veneta-Lega Nord.He joined Liga Veneta in the early 1990s and was Mayor of Thiene from 1997 to 2007, when he was elected President of the Province of Vicenza by a landslide: in the election he obtained 60.0% of the vote against 17.2% of his major opponent....
 (Casa delle libertā) since 2007 (before him there was Manuela Dal Lago
Manuela Dal Lago

Manuela Dal Lago is an Italian Venetism politician. She is member of Liga Veneta-Lega Nord.In the late 1970s she started her political career in the Italian Liberal Party , reaching the position of youth leader of the party in Veneto....
, always for "Casa delle libertā").

India's most influential lady and widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi ; 20 August 1944 ? 21 May 1991), the elder son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi, was the 9th Prime Minister of India of India from his mother's death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on 2 December 1989 following a general election defeat....
 was born here. She currently resides in New Delhi. She was named the third most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine in the year 2004[2] and currently ranks 6th.[3] She was also named among the Time 100 most influential people in the world for the years 2007[4] and 2008.

Important towns in the province include Bassano del Grappa
Bassano del Grappa

Bassano del Grappa is a city and comune in the province of Vicenza, region Veneto, in northern Italy. It bounds the communes of Cassola, Marostica, Solagna, Pove del Grappa, Romano d'Ezzelino, Campolongo sul Brenta, Conco, Italy, Ros?, Cartigliano and Nove....
, Schio
Schio

Schio is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza situated North of Vicenza and East of the Lake of Garda. It is surrounded by the Little Dolomites and Mount Pasubio....
, Thiene
Thiene

Thiene is a city in the province of Vicenza, in northern Italy, located approximately 75 kilometre west of Venice and 200 km east of Milan....
, Marostica
Marostica

Marostica , is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy. It is mostly famous for its living chess event and for the local cherry variety....
, Lonigo
Lonigo

Lonigo is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy.In its frazione of Bagnolo is the Villa Pisani , a Renaissance patrician villa designed by Andrea Palladio, which is part of a World Heritage Site....
, Arzignano
Arzignano

Arzignano is an industrial town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is located c. 23 km from Vicenza, in the Valle del Chiampo....
, Valdagno
Valdagno

Valdagno is a town in the province of Vicenza, Italy....
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