Braone

{{Infobox Italian comune

| name = Braone

| official_name = Comune di Braone

| native_name = {{lang|lmo|Braù}}

| image_skyline = Panorama-Braone (Foto Luca Giarelli).jpg

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| image_shield = Braone-Stemma.png

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| image_map = Map of comune of Braone in Val Camonica (LG).jpg

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| coordinates = {{coord|45|59|30|N|10|20|36|E|region:IT_type:city(610)|display=inline,title}}

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| region = {{RegioneIT|sigla=LOM}}

| province = {{ProvinciaIT (short form)|sigla=BS}} (BS)

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| mayor = Gabriele Prandini

| area_footnotes =

| area_total_km2 = 13.36

| population_footnotes = [http://demo.istat.it/bilmens2011gen/index02.html ISTAT] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184737/http://demo.istat.it/bilmens2011gen/index02.html |date=March 3, 2016 }}

| population_total = 689

| population_as_of = 30 April 2017

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| population_demonym = Braonesi

| elevation_footnotes =

| elevation_m = 394

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| saint = Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Candlemas)

| day = 2 February

| postal_code = 25040

| area_code = 0364

| website = {{official website|http://www.comune.braone.bs.it/}}

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Braone (Camunian: {{lang|lmo|Bragù}} or {{lang|lmo|Braù}}) is an Italian comune of 672 inhabitants in Val Camonica, province of Brescia, in Lombardy.

It is bounded by other communes of Breno, Cerveno, Ceto, Losine, Niardo.

History

{{see also|Val Camonica}}

In 1956 coins were discovered in Braone, the latest of which date back to Anastasius I (circa 518 CE).

Main sights

File:Chiesa della Purificazione di Maria - Braone (Foto Luca Giarelli).jpg

  • Parish Church of the Purification of the Virgin Mary, reported already in 1439, has a stone portal Sarnico of the eighteenth century. The altarpiece is by Fiammenghino.

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