Faeto

{{Infobox Italian comune

| name = Faeto

| official_name = Comune di Faeto

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| image_skyline = Faeto panorama.jpeg

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| coordinates = {{coord|41|19|30|N|15|9|39|E|region:IT|display=inline,title}}

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| region = {{flag|Apulia}}

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

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| area_total_km2 = 26.19

| population_footnotes = All demographics and other statistics from the Italian statistical institute (Istat)

| population_total = 719

| population_as_of = 31 December 2003

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| population_demonym = Faetani{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

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| elevation_m = 820

| saint = San Prospero

| day = Second Sunday in August

| postal_code = 71020

| area_code = 0881

| website = {{Official website|http://www.comune.faeto.fg.it/}}

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| istat = 071023

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Faeto ({{langx|frp|Fayéte}}, {{IPA|frp|faˈjet|IPA}}) is a town and comune in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy.

It is a mountain village lying astride the Apennines and renowned for its prosciutto, an Italian dry-cured ham known as {{ill|prosciutto di Faeto|it}}. Residents of Faeto and neighbouring Celle di San Vito are speakers of Faetar, a daughter language of the Franco-Provençal language, which is found in an Alpine region spanning northwestern Italy, southeastern France and southwestern Switzerland. Faeto was also historically inhabited by the Arbëreshë community,[https://books.google.com/books?id=_pESAgAAQBAJ&q=Faeto+&pg=PT36 Gjovalin Shkurtaj, Shpirti i arbrit rron] which still lives in neighboring Greci.

Faeto borders the following municipalities: Biccari, Castelfranco in Miscano, Celle di San Vito, Greci, Orsara di Puglia, Roseto Valfortore.

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