Lusiana Explained

Lusiana
Official Name:	ex Comune di Lusiana
Coordinates:	45.7833°N 45°W
Country:	Italy
Province:	(VI)
Frazioni:	Campana, Laverda, Santa Caterina, Valle di Sotto, Velo, Vitarolo
Mayor:	Antonella Corradin
Area Total Km2:	34
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Population Total:	2615
Population As Of:	28 February 2017
Population Demonym:	Lusianesi
Elevation M:	752
Saint:	San Giacomo il Maggiore
Day:	25 July
Postal Code:	36046
Area Code:	0424
Istat:	024054
Fractions:	Asiago, Conco, Lugo di Vicenza, Marostica, Salcedo
Fiscal Code:	E762

Lusiana (Cimbrian / German: Lusaan) is a small town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, in the comune of Lusiana Conco. The town is situated at about 750m (2,460feet) above sea level on the Asiago plateau .

The small town is the birthplace of Sonia Maino Gandhi, wife of Rajiv Gandhi, the former prime minister of India. She was born in a neighborhood called “Màini” where families with the family name “Màino” had been living for many generations.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. All demographics and other statistics from the Italian statistical institute (Istat)
2. Web site: Archived copy . 2011-09-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120331131821/http://news.comune.lusiana.vi.it/documenti/PAT/tavole_pat_da_pubblicare/SchedeContrade/016_maini.PDF . 2012-03-31 .
3. • http://digilander.libero.it/lusiana/lusiana.htm (from "The Newspaper of Vicenza", year 2004: un article about Lusiana and Sonia Gandhi with another picture of her native house.)
4. Web site: Patrimonio immobiliare - Consorzio Turistico Vicenzaè.
5. Book: "Sonia Gandhi was born Edvige Antonia Albina Maino to Stefano and Paola Maino on December 9, 1946, in Lusiana, a tiny town of fewer than 3000 inhabitants, nestled quietly in the crisp air of the verdant lower Alps of northeast Italy.⟨.....⟩ The quarter of Lusiana where the family lived - in a gray-fronted house with wooden shutters at the windows - was called Màini; people with the Maino surname had been there for several generations". Rani Singh. Sonia Gandhi, an Extraordinary Life, an Indian Destiny. foreword by Michael Gorbachev. 9780230340534. St. Martin's Press. New York. 2011. part I, "from Italy to Britain". 9–10.