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Kurtinig an der Weinstraße

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Country
  
Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Website
  
Official website

Local time
  
Sunday 7:09 AM

Province
  
Province / Metropolitan city
  
Dialing code
  
0471

Area
  
200 ha

Postal code
  
39040

Dialling code
  
0471

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Demonym(s)
  
German:KurtinigerItalian: cortineri

Weather
  
8°C, Wind SW at 3 km/h, 67% Humidity

Region
  
Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol

Kurtinig an der Weinstraße ( [kʊrˈtinɪk an dɐ ˈvaɪ̯nˌʃtraˑsə]; Italian: Cortina sulla Strada del Vino [korˈtiːna ˈsulla ˈstraːda del ˈviːno]), often abbreviated to Kurtinig or Cortina, is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of the city of Bolzano.

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Map of 39040 Cortina Sulla Strada del Vino Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol, Italy

As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 646 and an area of 2.0 square kilometres (0.77 sq mi).

Kurtinig borders the following municipalities: Margreid, Neumarkt, and Salorno.

Coat-of-arms

The emblem is an argent embattled wall, with a portal, above an azure band in the lower half; an eight-pointed star on the left side and the crescent moon on the right, both of argent on a gules background, in the upper half. The embattlted wall was built to protect the village from the flooding of the river Etsch; the star and the moon are a recall to the arms of the Lords of Appian which the village belonged.

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2011 census, 68.67% of the population speak German, 31.15% Italian and 0.17% Ladin as first language.

References

Kurtinig an der Weinstraße Wikipedia


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