Ghiffa

{{Infobox Italian comune

| name = Ghiffa

| official_name = Comune di Ghiffa

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| image_skyline = Porticato Via Crucis e cappella di San Giovanni Battista - Sacro Monte di Ghiffa - UNESCO patrimonio mondiale dell'umanità (2003).jpg

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| image_caption = Sacro Monte di Ghiffa

| image_shield = Ghiffa-Stemma.svg

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| coordinates = {{coord|45|57|N|8|37|E|type:city(2,382)_region:IT|display=inline,title}}

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| region = Piedmont

| province = Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB)

| frazioni = Carpiano, Cargiago, Caronio, Ceredo, Deccio, Frino, Ronco, San Maurizio, Selva, Susello

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| mayor = Matteo Lanino

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| area_total_km2 = 13.95

| population_footnotes = All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.

| population_total = 2385

| population_as_of = 30 September 2008

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| population_demonym = Ghiffesi

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| elevation_m = 201

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| postal_code = 28823

| area_code = 0323

| website = {{official website|http://comune.ghiffa.vb.it/}}

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Ghiffa (Ghifa in Lombard) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about {{convert|120|km|mi}} northeast of Turin and about {{convert|7|km|mi|0}} northeast of Verbania on the western shore of the Lake Maggiore.

It is most famous for the Sacro Monte, a site of pilgrimage and worship close to it, inserted by UNESCO in the World Heritage List.

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